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The phrase "able to overturn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or authority to reverse a decision, ruling, or situation.
Example: "The new evidence presented in court was compelling enough for the judge to be able to overturn the previous verdict."
Alternatives: "capable of reversing" or "able to nullify".
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Cardiff will not be able to overturn Acts of Parliament.
But Mr. Menem was able to overturn that prohibition.
The Football Association are not able to overturn or ignore the decisions of our legal system.
Commanders would also no longer be able to overturn jury convictions unilaterally.
Pending court cases, they may even be able to overturn it.
The Republicans already had a majority of six, and few thought that the Democrats would be able to overturn that.
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While Pruitt wouldn't be able to immediately overturn Obama's climate change rules on his own, he may erode them over time.
Legal scholars believe that Congress would not have been able to sue to overturn his decision.
But the military contracting industry is consumed now with the parlor game of guessing which prominent programs Mr. Gates will cut back or scrap as either "gold-plated" or troubled — and whether industry lobbyists will be able to persuade Congress to overturn some of those decisions.
Moreover, it does not have the ability to detect every type of threat, as a hypervisor rootkit is able to monitor and to overturn the lower level of the system in an attempt to read the memory [3].
Whether Mr. Abe will be able to pursue that ambition — to overturn the constitutional clause that calls for the complete renunciation of war — remains to be seen.
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