How To Use Overturn In A Sentence

Is that anger enough to overturn governments and rattle the founding idea of Europe? Times, Sunday Times
At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.

But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
President-elect Barack Obama said Friday he wanted legislation in Congress to permit federal funding on stem cell research and overturn a ban imposed by President George W. Bush.
Nothing short of substantive and meaningful improvement in the material well being of ordinary South Africans will overturn this tide of distrust and scepticism.
It seemed that we had a mountain to climb to overturn a 10-0 deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the key assumptions used as the basis for safety claims have been overturned.
The court ruled that the DNR, which oversees the lower portion of the federally protected riverway, had no authority to overturn the city of Lakeland's approval of the project. News
They want the Supreme Court to overturn the decision and have submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari.
The overturning of card tables or the snapping in two of billiard cues are signs that the loser has a very low self-esteem. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
Students were fighting and overturning desks and the teacher was shouting, ‘they're animals.’
On pretence of enjoying a free air, he mounted the box, and employed his elocution and generosity with such success, that the driver undertook to disable the diligence from proceeding beyond the town of Alost for that day; and, in consequence of his promise, gently overturned it when they were but a mile short of that baiting-place. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Suddenly, a storm came and huge waves almost overturned his boat.
We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
Her case ended up in the Supreme Court which overturned restrictive abortion laws in 46 states.
The horrified pair then saw his overturned car in a ditch - and discovered his lifeless body inside. The Sun
The boat overturned, and the people in it were swept into the foaming water, but were retrieved.
Earlier this year the plaintiff in Roe whose change of heart has made her the darling of the anti-choice crowd, included the affidavits when she filed a petition in court to have Roe overturned.
Some of the goals of a non-epistemology are as follows: to free up the use of epistemological discourses; to refuse to submit them to the directions for use imposed by the putative synthesis of its objects; to transform the amphibolies of epistemology into particular objects without merely overturning oppositions.
Cause litigation firms on the left and the right engage in rancorous legal fights around the nation on a range of subjects, seeking to further their agendas, from teaching creationism, to overturning SEC regulations, to fighting affirmative action, to promoting (or opposing) gay marriage. Balkinization
He called together the remnants of his tribe and the might of the enemy was overturned.
If roe v. wade is overturned, no more republicans … sounds good to me. Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.
This can be overturned only by a two-thirds majority of US senators. Times, Sunday Times
The central compound of parliamentary buildings has been compared to the forms of a cluster of overturned, beached fishing dories.
Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens.
This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised. Times, Sunday Times
The Government has overturned plans to build a third runway at Heathrow. Times, Sunday Times
And that this explanation establishes the objective necessity for the overturn of these social relations if human progress is to resume.
Temperatures in the North Atlantic are influenced by a giant 'conveyor belt' of warm water from the south called the meridional overturning circulation. A natural stop to global warming....
With his hair in disorder, and without his hat, he ran along the street as never man Was seen to run before, overturning passers-by, rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout .
The Maryland Court of Appeals has rejected a plea by Baltimore attorney Peter G. Angelos to overturn the sale of the so-called superblock on Baltimore's west side to a private development group, according to a 55-page unanimous opinion issued Tuesday by the state's highest court. Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal
Their only tangible success so far has been to overturn a previous ruling and have the inquests heard by a proper jury. Times, Sunday Times
The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
The decision to deregister them was overturned after a concerned social worker took the case to her director. Times, Sunday Times
`The most surprising thing about the group is that many of my preconceived notions about the participants have been overturned. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised. Times, Sunday Times
She sat on an overturned twenty-liter bucket (her clothes were too filthy to sit on anything else) and munched a hero sandwich with reflective enjoyment.
Buses and lorries were overturned, tens of thousands of trees were uprooted and seals were washed away. Times, Sunday Times
But her ruling was overturned by a judge. The Sun
But her own beliefs ran too deep to be overturned by a priest, no matter how clever or articulate. TREASON KEEP
She was originally convicted of murder, but had the verdict overturned at appeal because of procedural flaws.
Now they are holding midnight sessions of congress to overturn 19 state judges and interfere in people's most personal decisions.
It seemed that we had a mountain to climb to overturn a 10-0 deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Groups of men overturned and set fire to vehicles, torched a small factory and tried to stop fire engines from reaching the blaze. Times, Sunday Times
He filed a complaint with the House of Representatives seeking to overturn the election result.
Hopefully this ridiculous ban will get overturned when the matter goes to appeal. The Sun
The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people.
In most cases, it is the intestate heirs - those that stand to inherit if the will were to be overturned and the decedent were to be treated as if he died intestate - that have standing.
In April, over 40 graves were desecrated and headstone overturned.
A single mother works hard to fund putting herself through law school so she can overturn her brother's wrongful conviction for murder. The Sun
Labor will also make it more difficult for repeat offenders to get bail, no matter how minor the offence, by overturning the presumption in favour of bail.
To see a once-thriving city reduced to beggary and emptiness, to live one day at a time in point of food and medicine, to see an old European order brutally and efficiently overturned, to notice the utterly casual way in which human life can be snuffed out, and to see war machines wheeling and diving in the overcast sky: such an education! The Catastrophist
It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
One of her teachers was found guilty of negligent homicide in a French court but his conviction was later overturned.
Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
The east London club have now had four of their past five red cards overturned on appeal. Times, Sunday Times
Real aim to overturn a 2-1 deficit from the first knockout round, first leg. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Wong was more interested in the cat outside the window than our overturning ships with high metacentres.
Many roads were littered with debris including fallen traffic lights and overturned cars blocked several routes.
They overturned tables and threw chairs around, smashed glassware, and threatened and insulted employees.
On this latter point the earl of Shelburne rcmonftrated veiy warmly with his colleagues, urging in forciUe language the fupinenefs, the cowardice, the tij-eachery, the befotted ftupidity of permitting Lfiwis to rob the Corficans of their ina« lienable rights, and to overturn the balance of power by annexing to his dominions an ifland that would give him coniiderable in - fluence in the affiurs of Italy, and a dangerous extenfion of con - troul over the trade of the Mediterranean. Memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke
This sounds similar to earlier rumors of an overturn.
The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
There is a moment of recognition and reconciliation before the boat overturns, and both, locked in a final embrace, are drowned.
Mr Wong was more interested in the cat outside the window than our overturning ships with high metacentres.
She completely overturned my preconceptions about film stars.
Also Thursday, the International Cycling Union said in a statement that an earpiece ban set for Friday's 13th stage from Vittel to Colmar has been overturned, and riders will be able to race with electronic radio equipment as normal. After flat Stage 12, riders look to stretch their legs in mountains
The decision to deregister them was overturned after a concerned social worker took the case to her director. Times, Sunday Times
The red card was overturned on appeal. The Sun
Forty percent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years.
Many people drowned when the boat overturned.
Given little notice, the council still voted on the issue, resulting in a vote of eight people in favour of overturning the disclaimer; no one disagreed with the motion and three abstained from voting.
President-elect Barack Obama said Friday he wanted legislation in Congress to permit federal funding on stem cell research and overturn a ban imposed by President George W. Bush.
French synonyms for bousculer: bouleverser (to overturn), culbuter (to knock over), heurter (to knock against), pousser (to push) (but also to grow ...), secouer (to shake) French Word-A-Day:
Oh, you mean he doesn't ***really*** want to follow God's Law, but wants to do what all fundagelicals do, and pretend that God's Law is what ever bits of the Bible they *want* to follow, while insisting Jesus, in obviously one of his "unpublished" works, overturned the bits they don't? Huckabee Says US Constitution Should Reflect "God's Standards"
The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality.
The players' association filed a grievance yesterday seeking to overturn the Anaheim Angels' suspension of left fielder Jose Guillen.
Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.
Most notably, William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner” and the fieriest critic of the new concentrations of wealth and power, fused fundamentalist religious fervor and political radicalism, culminating in his famous “Cross of Gold” peroration at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.36 The phrase “What would Jesus do?” was popularized in a bestselling 1899 novel by Charles Sheldon, a Congregational minister in Topeka, Kansas, as an appeal to overturn economic inequality. American Grace
The zombies may be slow and weak, but they were still able to overturn a parked car.
There were delays on the A419 after a car overturned.
The Revolution redefined the cultural values signifying social prestige, and overturned the juridical system that had upheld status distinctions in the old regime.
BRITAIN'S shale gas revolution is finally under way after a fracking ban was overturned. The Sun
The vigor of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is thought to be vulnerable to global warming.
Police have started questioning the driver and passengers after a coach overturned on a mountain road.
A Bury fire crew were called when the car overturned near to a petrol station on Stand Lane, Bury, at 3.40 am on Sunday.
Key to overturning Labour's landslides was to remain the party willing to allow people to keep more of their own money.
A Ste Anne-area man convicted of arson last spring had his bid to overturn the ruling squelched in Manitoba's highest court last Wednesday.
He introduced reliable methods of assessment and measurement, and an epidemiological framework, and thereby overturned many of the previous conclusions.
At relatively low shear strains, deformation is apparent from the slight deformation of strain markers, such as the overturning of ice-wedge casts.
Through analysis of the paleoclimate record as well as a number of climate model simulations, we also suggest that it is very unlikely that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning will cease to be active in the near future.
Fold limbs are upward facing with respect to cleavage, and beds intruded by the studied granitoid rocks are not overturned.
It hit a local village, overturning boats and snapping trees like matchsticks.
In one incident, an articulated lorry was overturned while passengers in a car also had a lucky escape when their vehicle crashed through a nearby wall.
In so doing, it is overturning all existing relations between states and class.
This is the central figural medallion, or emblema, of a geometrically patterned floor, executed in minute tesserae of subtly graduated tones, that depicts a dog seated next to an overturned golden vessel.
The Lords' veto on the budget was overturned, and Asquith fought an election on this very issue, establishing the primacy of the elected Commons over the unelected Lords.
Let's hope the referee sees sense and overturns his decision.
The idea that allowing same-sex marriage overturns 4000 years of tradition in a way unlike allowing interracial marriage and unlike the change of marriage from an ownership relationship to a partnership is an idea which I have not been convinced of. Waldo Jaquith - A thought exercise.
The Government has overturned plans to build a third runway at Heathrow. Times, Sunday Times
A minibus taxi overturned on Hospital Bend, where northbound lanes were awash in a river of brown, silt-laden water.
He is fighting to overturn a life ban from the City. Times, Sunday Times
an overturned car
The truck overturned and precipitated us into the ditch.
The tribunal heard that Sir Ian found the panel's decision ‘extraordinary’ and sought legal advice about having it overturned.
As I've explained, the Administration bill would purport to "construe" Common Article 3 of Geneva to prohibit only what the McCain Amendment prohibits (and to cut off any judicial review that might overturn that implausible interpretation of Common Article 3). Balkinization
Yesterday the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling. Times, Sunday Times
Her vivid published version of the tales overturns European notions of what we/they call the Arabian Nights. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
Several pieces of galvanise sheets were strewn along the shore as the battered boats, some of which were overturned, sat atop piles of debris and slush.
The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton.
There's also a stonking good sword fight, in which furniture gets overturned, weapons are scooped up on the fly and the combatants find themselves thrusting and parrying while perched precariously up in the rafters.
We in the West End are fully behind any efforts to try and overturn this decision.
What he does believe is that antisodomy laws should remain on the books when they have been legislated into place and not be overturned by appellate courts. Mind Meld Make-Up Test: Orson Scott Card on Young Adult Fiction
It appeared that the vehicle had overturned and rolled a number of times before coming to rest on the roadside facing the opposite direction to which it was travelling.
He had no recollection of overturning a food trolley. Times, Sunday Times
She found chaos - the door wide open, tables overturned. Times, Sunday Times
The Government has shelved a promised vote on overturning the law until 2012 at the earliest. Times, Sunday Times
The appeal court overturned the conviction against her.
when wasteful war shall statues overturn
A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.
Unfortunately the real target for this judgeship is to overturn all of the federal corporate regulations, epa and entitlement programs. Think Progress » Alito believes Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided,
I have heard this and heard this and heard this and not ONCE have I heard the media deal with this question: How electable is Hillary really going to be if Obama wins more popular votes, more states, and more pledged delegates only to have all of that overturned by the fat cat superdelegates? Blitzer: Should Clinton's swing state edge be a factor?
Early modern artists, generally speaking, did little to overturn this convention in painting or sculpture.
While health care repeal is a top topic for the Republican Party, overturning Roe v. Wade has barely been mentioned in the campaign context. Boehner Targeted As Bad For Women In National Dem Campaign (VIDEO)
During the argument in the case last October, some justices seemed bothered by the retroactive extension but they also were concerned about their standing to overturn it.
The country's Supreme Court overturned he law, but the president then reimposed it by decree.
Judge Linda Sutcliffe, sitting with two magistrates, agreed to overturn the ban.
A previous conviction was overturned on appeal. The Sun
With the power out, the only light in the subbasements was cast by the spear points of flame, devouring overturned cars and office debris.
The author overturns the vision of two generations of historians and theologians.
It is the first known case of such an occurrence in Britain and overturns previous scientific assumptions that charlock was unlikely to cross-breed with GM oilseed rape.
A car was overturned and set alight.
A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in.
Police in riot gear were called out at the campus after several cars were overturned, fires were started and mayhem ensued.
In contrast, when Palin petitioned to overturn the endangerment finding, she cited a paper funded by Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and Koch Industries. Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have laws that entitle exonerated inmates to government compensation, according to The Innocence Project, which represents inmates fighting to have their convictions overturned. Beatrice Daily Sun News Articles
The defence hopes to overturn the ruling barring any inquiry into the legality of the war.
The burglars had overturned all the furniture in the house.
Unless the ban is watertight, EU laws will overturn it.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal overturned that conviction. Times, Sunday Times
Then, without warning, you've got the world's number one goalkeeper in self-destruct mode, the England captain glancing an own goal home and a seemingly impregnable lead overturned.
The timing of deglaciation shows a close correspondence to increased meridional overturning of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation and attendant warming of the North Atlantic Ocean immediately after the last glacial maximum.
Amid the hairspray bottles and eye-shadow palettes littering the tables lay overturned plastic champagne flutes.
The decision was overturned by the European Court of Human Rights only because the journalist had ‘clearly dissociated himself from the persons interviewed.’
Another significant section of the overturned clauses dealt with a fixed term of office for the Chief Prosecutor.
The car then overturned, coming to rest on its roof on the hard shoulder.
For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
His conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
I've read the Los Alamos reports, but I'd like to know if, since then anyone has said the thorium is more concentrated than being a constituent of KREEP overturned at basin rim structures. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
The Supreme Court once again overturned the lower court's decision last year.
Are you saying that these 12 eminent professors are calling for Liddy's conviction to be overturned because the prosector improperly granted him access to exculpatory evidence and the judge improperly admitted such evidence? Balkinization
On the track the team have again failed to conjure notable results, were tainted by Piquet Jr's attack on Briatore when he was axed - describing him as his "executioner" - and then hit the headlines again in Hungary when Alonso's tyre fell off, resulting in a one-race ban that was overturned on appeal. Planet F1 | Formula 1 News
The road was completely blocked by an overturned truck.
The story told of a Canelos-owned truck that overturned on a highway, killing 21 farmworkers who were riding in the back.
That finding was overturned by the High Court, then reversed again by the Court of Appeal, which said the water should go to the first fully completed application to the regional council. Radio New Zealand News Headlines
I am writing this in a room strewn with wine bottles, dirty clothes, coffee cups, overturned books, and slumbering men. Exit the Actress
He moved too quickly and his chair overturned, the wooden crash amplified by the stone floor. THE WHITE DOVE
Real aim to overturn a 2-1 deficit from the first knockout round, first leg. Times, Sunday Times
Entering, he saw the floor and walls besprent with recent blood, and, worst of all, the child's cradle was overturned; the coverlet was torn and all was daubed with blood.
Swedish eau-de-vie with cumin, tuica calugaresca from Rumania, slivowitz from Servia, all equally overturned every idea that Coqueville had of what one should endure. The Fête At Coqueville 1907
On Dec. 13 the New Jersey Supreme Court, in a 5-2 vote, overturned a state law that forbid sexual intercourse between any man and an unmarried woman.
He left England with a bruise, by his coach overturning, that made him spit blood, and was so ill, we expected every post to hear of his death; but he outrode it or outdrank it, or something, and is come home lustier than ever. The Journal to Stella
He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy. Reflections on Burke
It will make it harder to overturn the 1986 ban on commercial whaling. Times, Sunday Times
Eventually the death sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court.
In Sunbury, and at intervals along the road, were dead bodies lying in contorted attitudes, horses as well as men, overturned carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
Koch Industries is using their deep coiffures to influence elections around the country: giving millions to Senate candidates who deny climate change, fueling the Tea Party, and funding Proposition 23, a ballot measure to overturn California's climate and energy policy. Courtney Hight: Joel vs. Koch Brothers -- Whose Side are you on? (VIDEO)
Bide doun, with a mischief to ye — bide doun, with a wanion,” cried the king, almost overturned by the obstreperous caresses of the large stag-hounds. The Fortunes of Nigel
Mr Justice Gage overturned a previous ban on any picture or artist's impression being published of George.
A stuntman who has overturned cars and traded punches with Hollywood's finest is to turn his attention to helping save a little girl's life.
A good many assumptions and preconceptions were challenged and some overturned.
Residents hope they can overturn the decision.
This work, reinforced by geological and comparative anatomy studies, forced a paradigm shift on biology and was seen as overturning firmly held religious beliefs about the origins of life on Earth.
The toilet is a mighty throne, and the tub is like a giant overturned turtle shell filled with nectar and ambrosia.
Buses and lorries were overturned, trees were uprooted and seals were washed away. Times, Sunday Times
We had an oar on our overturned boat. The Sun
They are alarmed even though religious values are serving more as a brake on cultural reform than a vehicle for overturning the left's past advances.
Social scientists claim to have overturned the popular notion that modern children never walk because they are chauffeured everywhere by their parents.
Aside from the disaster of overturning roe v wade, which is a very likely scenario if McCain wins and appoints an anti-choice judge, I think obama is more likely to appoint a justice who might actually be representative of a slice of america not presently represented on the court. Horse needs a-floggin'
IRVINE - A blue Ford Explorer overturned into the carpool lane of the southbound 5 freeway just south of Jamboree Road, blocking the carpool lane in Irvine, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News
He then overturned it, spilling the packing material onto the floor. LION IN THE VALLEY
But her own beliefs ran too deep to be overturned by a priest, no matter how clever or articulate. TREASON KEEP
Whether he can realistically hope to overturn the sizeable Labour majority in Barking is perhaps doubtful.
As a result, the chances of overturning the election result remain remote. Times, Sunday Times
Three people were injured in the second accident in the north of the county when their car overturned on the Fanore road outside Lisdoonvarna at about 6pm.
But it was jammed beneath the overturned sled, and by the time Henry had helped him to right the load, One Ear and the she-wolf were too close together and the distance too great to risk a shot. The Hunger Cry
While these men were not social revolutionaries bent on overturning the slave system in one bold stroke, nor were they solely foot draggers content to slow production.
During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road.
With that, the band thanked the sweaty crowd, threw down their guitars, overturned the drums and left without an encore.
They overturn laws passed by legislators, constitutionalize rights not enumerated in the Constitution, even determine the outcome of a presidential election.
She said they hoped to overturn a number of misconceptions about saké. Times, Sunday Times
The boat overturned about 150 yards from the cave entrance and at least three of the victims apparently became trapped beneath the boat.
Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
The tragedy happened when the Vauxhall hit the central reservation and overturned, coming to rest on the hard shoulder.

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