(v. t.) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
(v. t.) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order.
(v. t.) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.
(v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(2) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(3) "Gove's overruling by the prime minister is a victory for thousands of young people, teachers and athletes, and is a warning to this government that it cannot simply do what it likes.
(4) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(5) Any attempts to overrule it undermine both the women's right to choose and doctor's right to practice.
(6) But, against his own wishes, he had to announce that the Saudi contract bid would go ahead because of the financial penalties involved, but when that reason was amended to Britain’s “best interests” it was widely assumed that Hammond had overruled him.
(7) It is not an option for the shadow cabinet to overrule him in favour of collectively supporting the proposal for military action because this would lead to them being sacked.
(8) We are amazed that a doctor's judgment is overruled in nine cases out of 10."
(9) A great portfolio might overrule this requirement but it is a great fall back.
(10) Asst Ch Con Roger Bannister said in a statement: “This man is not the only individual being investigated by Operation Enamel and our determination to bring others to justice is undaunted.” Saunders overruled the lead counsel, Eleanor Laws QC, who had recommended that Janner should be charged.
(11) He told the committee he would be willing to overrule Ofqual and press ahead if he believed the changes were right: "If they still had concerns and I still believe it is right to go ahead then I would do it, and on my head be it."
(12) The PI was seen as a supplementary source of information, instrumental to the physician-pharmacist-patient relationship, without the power to overrule the physician's or pharmacist's instructions.
(13) And now the European court of human rights keeps the judiciary honest, as it did in the Abu Qatada case itself last year when overruling our judges' effort to be relaxed about torture evidence as long as it was being allowed in Amman and not the Old Bailey.
(14) It argues that Webster does not overrule Roe v. Wade, but that it clarifies 3 points of law concerning abortion.
(15) NGO officials say Sudan's national security service has been overruling the state humanitarian affairs commission on issues of which aid groups are allowed to work, and where.
(16) And the Nauru files unveil how conditions in the camps are clinically euphemised for the outside world: critical incidents, in which refugees have attempted to kill themselves, or are raped or assaulted, are downgraded to the classifications “major” or “minor”, ensuring that Wilson – the security subcontractor on the island – won’t be fined for failing to report them in time; doctors’ orders that someone be moved for urgent medical treatment are overruled by a department slavishly determined to uphold a policy, regardless of medical consequence.
(17) Solomon led the London march early today with a megaphone but found her directions overruled when students, instructed via mobile phones, spontaneously sprinted toward parliament.
(18) Her mother the Duchess of Kent had wanted to call her Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Alexandrina Victoria, but was overruled by a cantankerous Prince Regent, the future George IV, who dictated during the ceremony that she be called Alexandrina Victoria instead in tribute to the Russian Tsar Alexander I.
(19) It’s hard for public servants to actually overrule somebody who might next week be sitting on the other side of the table at a Senate estimates hearing, grilling them,” he said.
(20) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
Overturn
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
(v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.
(n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report follows the recent campaign by Theresa May to overturn the existing ban on allowing new grammar schools to open.
(2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(3) A controversial bill aimed at tackling cybercrime has gained support this week even as critics including the Obama administration charge it threatens to overturn privacy protections.
(4) United have until Thursday to inform the FA about whether they intend to appeal but their chances of overturning the decision look slim given that the governing body has already shown the incident to a panel of three former referees.
(5) The federal court is being asked to overturn the environment minister, Greg Hunt’s approval of Indian company Adani’s $16.5bn Queensland coalmine because he did not take into account the impact on the Great Barrier Reef of the greenhouse gases emitted when the coal is burned.
(6) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(7) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
(8) His parliamentary career took off in 2001, when he overturned a Labour majority of 3,000.
(9) In a last-ditch attempt to overturn the award of the west coast rail franchise to FirstGroup, Virgin Trains co-owner Sir Richard Branson has offered to run the service "for free" to allow time for parliamentary scrutiny of the decision.
(10) The move, which could be made as soon as Tuesday, comes after the former UBS and Citigroup employee failed in a previous attempt to have his conviction overturned , and was then blocked last year from appealing to the supreme court .
(11) The following summer, the coastal city Qidong scrapped a pipeline plan after about a thousand protesters stormed government offices and overturned cars.
(12) His move came as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalises a new set of proposals for regulation after the old rules were overturned by a series of court defeats at the hands of cable and telecom companies.
(13) Polls released this week showed the radical left anti-austerity Syriza party still in the ascendant, and analysts have expressed doubts that the incumbent New Democracy party will be able to overturn its lead.
(14) Where racial and class and ethnic barriers are overturned.
(15) When the announcement came, just before 3.30am, that Duffield had taken the seat for Labour by a margin of 187 votes, overturning a Conservative majority of close to 10,000, it was a significant moment in an extraordinary night for Corbyn’s Labour party – and one that came to be seen as a symbol of just how confounding an election it was.
(16) David Cameron and his whips are working hard on the Democratic Unionist MPs to get them to back overturning the Lords decision.
(17) The match-changing calls that cost Chicago and Real Salt Lake could have been overturned.
(18) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
(19) Over the ranges 2.8 X 10(-5) to 8.78 X 10(-5) M diazepam and 4.85 X 10(-2) to 1.22 X 10(-1) M ethanol, addition of the effects of these agents on the overturn end point in goldfish was observed.
(20) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.