How To Use Overturned In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
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Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.
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But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
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This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
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Many of the key assumptions used as the basis for safety claims have been overturned.
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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
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Suddenly, a storm came and huge waves almost overturned his boat.
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We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
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Her case ended up in the Supreme Court which overturned restrictive abortion laws in 46 states.
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The horrified pair then saw his overturned car in a ditch - and discovered his lifeless body inside.
The Sun
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The boat overturned, and the people in it were swept into the foaming water, but were retrieved.
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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.
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He called together the remnants of his tribe and the might of the enemy was overturned.
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If roe v. wade is overturned, no more republicans … sounds good to me.
Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
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The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.
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This can be overturned only by a two-thirds majority of US senators.
Times, Sunday Times
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The central compound of parliamentary buildings has been compared to the forms of a cluster of overturned, beached fishing dories.
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Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens.
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This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Government has overturned plans to build a third runway at Heathrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
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The decision to deregister them was overturned after a concerned social worker took the case to her director.
Times, Sunday Times
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`The most surprising thing about the group is that many of my preconceived notions about the participants have been overturned.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Buses and lorries were overturned, tens of thousands of trees were uprooted and seals were washed away.
Times, Sunday Times
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But her ruling was overturned by a judge.
The Sun
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But her own beliefs ran too deep to be overturned by a priest, no matter how clever or articulate.
TREASON KEEP
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She was originally convicted of murder, but had the verdict overturned at appeal because of procedural flaws.
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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
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Hopefully this ridiculous ban will get overturned when the matter goes to appeal.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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In April, over 40 graves were desecrated and headstone overturned.
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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
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One of her teachers was found guilty of negligent homicide in a French court but his conviction was later overturned.
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The east London club have now had four of their past five red cards overturned on appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many roads were littered with debris including fallen traffic lights and overturned cars blocked several routes.
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They overturned tables and threw chairs around, smashed glassware, and threatened and insulted employees.
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The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
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She completely overturned my preconceptions about film stars.
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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
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The decision to deregister them was overturned after a concerned social worker took the case to her director.
Times, Sunday Times
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The red card was overturned on appeal.
The Sun
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Forty percent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years.
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Many people drowned when the boat overturned.
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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"
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The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality.
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Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.
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There were delays on the A419 after a car overturned.
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The Revolution redefined the cultural values signifying social prestige, and overturned the juridical system that had upheld status distinctions in the old regime.
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BRITAIN'S shale gas revolution is finally under way after a fracking ban was overturned.
The Sun
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Police have started questioning the driver and passengers after a coach overturned on a mountain road.
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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.
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He introduced reliable methods of assessment and measurement, and an epidemiological framework, and thereby overturned many of the previous conclusions.
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Fold limbs are upward facing with respect to cleavage, and beds intruded by the studied granitoid rocks are not overturned.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Government has overturned plans to build a third runway at Heathrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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A minibus taxi overturned on Hospital Bend, where northbound lanes were awash in a river of brown, silt-laden water.
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an overturned car
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The truck overturned and precipitated us into the ditch.
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The tribunal heard that Sir Ian found the panel's decision ‘extraordinary’ and sought legal advice about having it overturned.
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Yesterday the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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She found chaos - the door wide open, tables overturned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The appeal court overturned the conviction against her.
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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?
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The country's Supreme Court overturned he law, but the president then reimposed it by decree.
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A previous conviction was overturned on appeal.
The Sun
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With the power out, the only light in the subbasements was cast by the spear points of flame, devouring overturned cars and office debris.
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A car was overturned and set alight.
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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.
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Police in riot gear were called out at the campus after several cars were overturned, fires were started and mayhem ensued.
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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
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The burglars had overturned all the furniture in the house.
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Yesterday the Court of Appeal overturned that conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Amid the hairspray bottles and eye-shadow palettes littering the tables lay overturned plastic champagne flutes.
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The decision was overturned by the European Court of Human Rights only because the journalist had ‘clearly dissociated himself from the persons interviewed.’
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Another significant section of the overturned clauses dealt with a fixed term of office for the Chief Prosecutor.
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The car then overturned, coming to rest on its roof on the hard shoulder.
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His conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
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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
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The Supreme Court once again overturned the lower court's decision last year.
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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
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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
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The road was completely blocked by an overturned truck.
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The story told of a Canelos-owned truck that overturned on a highway, killing 21 farmworkers who were riding in the back.
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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
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I am writing this in a room strewn with wine bottles, dirty clothes, coffee cups, overturned books, and slumbering men.
Exit the Actress
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He moved too quickly and his chair overturned, the wooden crash amplified by the stone floor.
THE WHITE DOVE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Eventually the death sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court.
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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
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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
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Mr Justice Gage overturned a previous ban on any picture or artist's impression being published of George.
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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.
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A good many assumptions and preconceptions were challenged and some overturned.
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The toilet is a mighty throne, and the tub is like a giant overturned turtle shell filled with nectar and ambrosia.
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Buses and lorries were overturned, trees were uprooted and seals were washed away.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had an oar on our overturned boat.
The Sun
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Social scientists claim to have overturned the popular notion that modern children never walk because they are chauffeured everywhere by their parents.
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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
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He then overturned it, spilling the packing material onto the floor.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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But her own beliefs ran too deep to be overturned by a priest, no matter how clever or articulate.
TREASON KEEP
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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.
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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
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During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road.
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With that, the band thanked the sweaty crowd, threw down their guitars, overturned the drums and left without an encore.
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The boat overturned about 150 yards from the cave entrance and at least three of the victims apparently became trapped beneath the boat.
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The tragedy happened when the Vauxhall hit the central reservation and overturned, coming to rest on the hard shoulder.
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The threat is as if a garbage truck had overturned and dumped wilted intellectual lettuce on bystanders.
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This argument seems convincing, but is easily overturned.
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Such trends have been successfully overturned overseas, and with general public acceptance.
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His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden Fox had ordered Lohan held without bail during a brief hearing Friday morning, But his ruling later was overturned after the "Mean Girls" star's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, filed a late-afternoon appeal seeking bail.
Lindsay Lohan Freed From Jail After Posting Bail
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On Saturday, 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured when another coach, destined for Chinatown from Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Casino, overturned and slid into a highway sign stanchion in the Bronx.
NYPD Cracks Down on Buses
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The crashed bus lies overturned by the side of the road.
The Sun
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At one point we accidentally overturned a sledge and a trickle of brown liquid oozed out of the sledge onto the white snow.
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The execution ended a 14-year battle to have Bannister's death sentence overturned.
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An appellate tribunal overturned the original opinion that had eviscerated free speech rights.
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The road was completely blocked by an overturned truck.
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In striped shadow they were perched side by side on an outcrop of black basalt like an overturned boat.
A TIME OF WAR
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The Labour candidate overturned the previous Conservativemajority of 4000.
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He held, and the wind that came now was not the slight coolth and strange smell of deep sands overturned.
HAMMERFALL
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Buses and lorries were overturned, tens of thousands of trees were uprooted and seals were washed away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Court of Appeal overturned the original ruling.
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It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard
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The FWTD augments the recovery capability by performing the towing functions, leaving the wrecker free for other recovery situations, such as overturned vehicles.
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Finally, the development of fail-safe statistics will assist in determining when knowledge cumulation should take a well-deserved rest, that an obtained result will not easily be overturned.
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Independent appeal panels are also to be advised that such decisions should only be overturned under exceptional circumstances.
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Referee Gerald Austin overturned the fumble, but ruled Davis didn't have possession before the ball came loose and called it an incompletion.
USATODAY.com - Football - San Francisco vs. Pittsburgh
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Well, we looked funny, no doubt, Bella in a Russian pony automobile coat over the black satin she had worn at the Clevelands 'dinner, and I in cream lace, the skirt gathered up from the kitchen floor, with Bella's ermine pelerine around my bare shoulders, and dishes and overturned chairs everywhere.
When a Man Marries
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A truck driver died last night when his vehicle overturned.
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It overturned in the fast lane on the twin-track road on the other side of Stowerton.
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As for the reason, she says she lost her leg as a child to a runaway horse and an overturned carriage.
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Her case ended up in the Supreme Court which overturned restrictive abortion laws in 46 states.
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The Supreme Court has overturned the lower court's decision .
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She found chaos - the door wide open, tables overturned.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Monday, rebels held positions at the western gates of the city, on the fringes of desert littered with bullet casings, scraps of metal and more than a dozen blackened or overturned vehicles, including tanks and pickups outfitted with anti-aircraft guns.
Libyan rebels reject cease-fire proposal
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After hitting the second tractor trailer, the bus overturned, colliding with two cars and two motorcycles.
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The car careered off the road and overturned on a number of occasions.
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The Revolution in science overturned the authority in not only of the middle ages but of the ancient world - it ended not only in the eclipse of scholastic philosophy but in the destruction of Aristotelian physics.
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Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the road and occasion massacres.
Les Miserables
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The sailing boats and one of the rescue boats overturned, and police were brought in to help, along with an additional rescue boat from the cadets.
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The court overturned that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution had withheld crucial evidence.
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In a watershed experiment, these two doctoral students overturned centuries of obvious nephrological wisdom and found - gasp!
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Samantha watched him go inside and shut it behind him; a flash of lightning illuminated the beach roses and the bayberry bushes, and the old overturned schooner in front of Ray's work shed.
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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.
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The car skidded off the road, hit a tree and overturned.
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She was snapped harshly back to reality by the clatter of overturned toys.
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Hundreds of youths rampaged through the town, shop windows were smashed and cars overturned.
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The case being overturned is the important thing to the vast majority of people.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Lithwick’s Lament
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Two other convictions have been overturned on appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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“And so mine well may,” said Desborough, “ay, and overturned too, since my bed last night was turned upside down, and I was placed for ten minutes heels uppermost, and head downmost, like a bullock going to be shod.”
Woodstock
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Yesterday the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The big vase overturned
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The ruling overturned the court's earlier decision.
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It had not been the water glass he'd overturned during the night -- it ink bottle.
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After all, the band hall was a portable, the chairs were overturned metal washtubs, there was no air conditioning, and now three of the four buses had died.
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Only last year they overturned a ban on these ships.
Times, Sunday Times
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The memento is a reference to the repeal in 1999 of Depression-era legislation; the repeal overturned core financial regulations, allowed for the creation of Citi and helped feed the Wall Street boom.
NYT > Home Page
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The only time guilty pleas are allowed to be overturned is if there are some circumstances where the defendant didn't understand English properly, was physically coerced, that is, threatened with physical harm if they didn't plead guilty.
CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007
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The constitutional experts consulted by the Yes on 1098 campaign say that the key precedents that led to the 1930s ruling have been overturned in ensuing decades.
Is the High-Earners Income Tax Proposal Constitutional? Yes, but… « PubliCola
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Highlights: Aaron Peirsol wins the 200 back in commanding fashion before being briefly disqualified for an illegal turn; the DQ is overturned due to a blank judge's report; the U.S. men go 1-2 in the 200 IM, as Ryan Lochte turns in a gutsy free leg to move up behind winner Michael Phelps and Auburn University-based George Bovell claims Trinidad & Tobago's first swimming medal; Amanda Beard wins her first individual gold medal in the 200 breast; Natalie Coughlin touches third in 100 free behind world record holder Jodie Henry (Australia) and former world record holde Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands).
USATODAY.com - Backstroking through the swimming events
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Redfern said he doubted the law would be overturned and dared anyone to challenge it.
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That step, coming months after an amnesty law for human rights violators was overturned, is expected to help prosecutors when trials of former military officers charged with crimes like kidnapping, murder, and torture begin later this year.
Never Again, Argentina!
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Lord Horror was the last novel to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts as likely to corrupt and deprave those who read it (the decision was finally overturned on appeal).
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
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Back in 2008, an acquaintance tut-tutted and brushed aside my complaints about those Philly fans, who overturned cars and looted a luggage store.
Canada, the civilized
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Traffic on I-95 southbound came to a standstill at noon Wednesday when a tractor trailer hauling gravel overturned in Wilmington, Del.
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The ruling may be overturned, but the machinery of government is working.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wagon overturned and Clyde took a bad spill, injuring one of his legs.
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According to survivors the boat overturned in heavy seas in a matter of minutes, leaving most of the passengers trapped inside.
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On January 31, 1950 President Truman overturned the AEC and directed them "to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Senator Dianne Feinstein has apparently decided that Obama's executive order is not secure as policy, and declared she will go forward with legislation to "codify" the change to the Army Field Manual, making it less likely it can be overturned by further executive actions.
American Torture
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Edwin overturned this plan by telling him that in the moment the abthanes repledged their secret faith to England, they sent orders into Ayrshire to watch the movements of Wallace's relations, and to prevent their either hearing of or marching to the assistance of their wronged kinsman.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The crashed bus lies overturned by the side of the road.
The Sun
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A previous conviction was overturned on appeal.
The Sun
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A newsagent's shop, pub, sex shop and a car were set alight and two other vehicles were overturned as riot police took to the streets in Burnley, Lancs.
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In a short period of time old wounds were opened up and picked over, and legal assumptions about historical restitution were overturned.
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Longtime residents recall seeing police cars overturned and set afire because the officers had dared tried to patrol here.
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The wind, the night before, had blown down twenty apple trees into the farmyard, overturned the boilery, and carried away the roof of the barn.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
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He said the interdict was a continuation of Nextcom's successful legal challenge against Satra's first recommendation in April, and it was hoped that the regulatory body's final decision would be overturned.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There has been enormous publicity over those cases where convictions have been overturned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Labour candidate overturned the previous Conservativemajority of 4000.
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This conviction was later overturned on a technicality.
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The building was overturned at the earthquake.
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The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.
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One of the victims of the haircutting was a bishop who served on the committee that overturned the excommunications, according to court papers.
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