Significados de overrule power em inglês

The Britons held some dim faith in an overruling Power and in a life beyond the grave.

The truth is that the legislative power is the great and overruling power in every free government.

The essence of Froude's belief, not otherwise dogmatic, was a constant sense of God's presence and overruling power.

Such a race has been preparing, and will be prepared by the overruling power of God in this country.

An autocracy, established by force, and ruling without the free consent of the governed, is an external and overruling power.

Would you say, in the face of this, that a beatific, beneficent creative, overruling power never wills that which is either tricky or deceptive?