Meanings (ES + gloss)
extralimitación
An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
It may not be much of a stretch to say that there had always been something comforting about the earlier periods of judicial activism. [...] Ideology aside, one may concede that su…
[T]hat's something that I think everyone in the White House understood was danger. We thought it was necessary, But I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, this is look…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
pasarse de frenada
To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
Records [of library loans] must be protected from the self-appointed guardians of public and private morality and from officials who might overreach their constitutional prerogativ…
The British Empire would not have endured so long had it not been for a discreet sense of moderation in its rulers, generation after generation. The coolness displayed towards the…