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Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2017

The others�Michael Kennedy of San Francisco and Dennis Roberts of Oakland�obtained a supervening order from a U.S. district judge in San Francisco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cold and rain together, supervening in that hour of the spirit’s default, may well have made me light-headed; nor was it easy to distinguish the tooth of self-reproach from that of genuine hunger.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

We have indirect evidence of this in many variations and diseases supervening during so-called growth at a particular period, and being inherited at a corresponding period.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Numerous cases are on record of convulsions supervening upon violent passion in the nurse.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)