impose,overrate, overthrow,digital-impose, violate,hardcore, chip away

The architect of Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy has argued that by avoiding lockdown, the country will see only a small second wave of cases, unlike others that could be forced to reimpose restrictions.


10 February 2014

Nymphomaniac: How hardcore is Lars von Trier’s latest?

The film is controversial enough on its own: through graphic sex scenes, director Lars von Trier recounts the erotic history of a woman (played at different stages by Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg) from childhood to the age of 50.

In 2013, producer Louise Vesth told The Hollywood Reporter: "We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post [production] we will digital-impose the two. So above the waist it will be the star and then below the waist it will be the doubles."


Pauline Maier, Historian Who Described Jefferson as 'Overrated,' Dies at 75
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

In her book "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence," Professor Maier chipped away at mythology.

The Weekend Interview With Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard13

 

Nothing revealed in recent days suggests that N.S.A. eavesdroppers have violated the law by targeting ordinary Americans. On Friday, President Obama defended the agency’s collection of phone records and other metadata, saying it did not involve listening to conversations or reading the content of e-mails.

最近披露的消息沒有證據表明，NSA的竊聽者對普通美國人的竊聽違反了法律。上周五，奧巴馬總統為國家安全局收集電話記錄和其他元數據的做法辯護，稱其不涉及偷聽談話內容、或閱讀電子郵件內容。

 

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Year of Probation for Chinese Artist Ends

By EDWARD WONG 5:05 PM ET

The dissident Ai Weiwei said he could now travel outside Beijing, in theory. “It really surprised me because I violated almost every rule they imposed,” he said.

 

Why Overthrowing Gaddafi Is Overrated
By Romesh Ratnesar
The idea of bringing down a terror-sponsoring tyrant may be appealing, but the success rate of regime changes imposed by foreign armies is dismal

chip away

• gradually and relentlessly make something smaller or weaker:rivals may chip away at one’s profits by undercutting product prices

overthrow

Translate overthrow | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈθrəʊ/

(past overthrew; past participle overthrown) [with object]

• 1remove forcibly from power:military coups which had attempted to overthrow the King
•  put an end to (something) by the use of force:their subversive activities are calculated to overthrow parliamentary democracy
•  archaic knock or throw to the ground:one who is already prostrate cannot be overthrown

• 2throw (a ball) further than the intended distance:he grips the ball too tight and overthrows it
•  chiefly North American throw a ball beyond (a receiving player):Dodge overthrew a receiver in the end zone

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəθrəʊ/

• 1 [in singular] a removal from power:plotting the overthrow of the government

• 2(in cricket, baseball, and other games) a throw which sends a ball past its intended recipient or target.
•  a score made because the ball has been overthrown:his throw missed the stumps and went for four overthrows

• 3a panel of decorated wrought-iron work above an arch or gateway.

overrate
(ō'vər-rāt')
tr.v., -rat·ed, -rat·ing, -rates.
To overestimate the merits of; rate too highly.

rate (JUDGE)

 

  impose

 (ĭm-pōz')

v., -posed, -pos·ing, -pos·es.

v.tr.

1. To establish or apply as compulsory; levy: impose a tax.
2. To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority: impose a peace settlement. See synonyms at dictate.
3. To obtrude or force (oneself, for example) on another or others.
4. Printing. To arrange (type or plates) on an imposing stone.
5. To offer or circulate fraudulently; pass off: imposed a fraud on consumers.

v.intr.
To take unfair advantage: You are always imposing on their generosity.

[Middle English imposen, from Old French imposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin impōnere, to place upon : in-, on; see in-² + pōnere, to place.]

imposer im·pos'er n.

violate

verb

[with object]

• 1break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement):they violated the terms of a ceasefire
• fail to respect (someone’s peace, privacy, or rights):they denied that human rights were being violated

• 2treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect:he was accused of violating a tomb

• 3rape or sexually assault (someone).

Derivatives

violator
noun

violable
adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin violat- 'treated violently', from the verb violare