Sentence examples for Stand overturned from inspiring English sources

At the beginning Mr. Braxton — next to an assembly of horns including the contrabass saxophone, taller than him in its tilted stand — overturned an hourglass on a table.

It could review a ruling that the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on Tuesday, let stand, overturning California's referendum banning gay marriage in Perry v. Brown.

The ruling allowed the rest of the health law to stand, overturning the decision of a lower court which wanted to throw the whole thing out.

A commissioner sitting in the stands overturning a call in a World Series — or doing it the next day, when everybody is flying home?

Whether Tuesday's ruling stands or is overturned on appeal, it is unlikely that parents or the public will stand for the old, inefficient policies much longer.

But the opening chorus, with its echoes of the Dies Irae, becomes the cue for a revolution as music-stands are violently overturned and formal attire shredded.

Experts differ on whether a deadlock, if a vote were actually taken and a tie resulted, would allow the lower panel's ruling to stand or would overturn it.

The move by the 60-year-old will clear the path for the other five candidates in the race to succeed Blatter as there was still the possibility that Platini could stand if he had overturned the ban on appeal.

To stand a chance of overturning Mr da Silva's huge lead, he must do two things, according to Gaudencio Torquato, a political scientist at Sao Paulo University.

Cortines' decision effectively overturns the stand taken last November by then-Supt.

The move comes as Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, stands ready to overturn part of the Civil Service Act so that ministers can have more say over Whitehall appointments.