(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.
Repeal
Definition:
(v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons.
(v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.
(v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
(n.) Recall, as from exile.
(n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(3) And make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
(5) If you’re a congressional Republican, you consider Obamacare a “failure”, and “repeal and replace” is your mantra.
(6) In May, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to repeal the death penalty; it is the 18th state in total.
(7) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
(8) He has also demanded the carbon tax repeal be made retrospective.
(9) This possibility makes the repeal of the section particularly urgent and the supreme court's suggestion that it needs to be debated in parliament is nothing more than, well, stonewalling.
(10) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
(11) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
(12) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.
(13) They opposed the first iteration of the House healthcare bill as not going far enough to repeal Obamacare.
(14) But in the short-term it’s better to have something reducing emissions than having nothing.” Palmer, whose senators also voted to repeal the former government’s emissions trading scheme – which is how Australia was left without a climate policy – said he believed Australia would eventually have to move to such a scheme.
(15) The policy wouldn’t officially be repealed until 20 September 2011.
(16) The demonstrators want a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 8th amendment to Ireland’s constitution, which effectively makes the fetus even at early gestation an Irish citizen.
(17) However, in July the coalition government said it had no plans to repeal the act.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many progressives consider the self-described farm girl their worst nightmare: a Tea Party radical who wants to privatise social security, curb abortion rights, repeal Obamacare and abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
(19) Ironically, the law being used to pursue the groups is one from the era of Mubarak, which the government had said it intended to repeal.
(20) The House speaker, Paul Ryan, said that after Congress’s forthcoming weeklong recess, “we intend to introduce legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare”, without giving further details.