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overmighty /əʊvəˈmʌɪti /adjective BritishExcessively powerful: trade union leaders were now denounced as overmighty tyrants...- Which brings us to the second side-function of this TV drama, its Technicolor illustration of a drab fact: Britain suffers from a bad case of overmighty executive syndrome.
- It started off as a movement whereby Student Unions, overmighty in those days, bound themselves to deny racists and fascists a platform to speak at university meetings.
- But Britain needs a government willing to loosen the grip of the overmighty centre: if it can't do that for the party, what hope is there for the country?
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