Sentence examples for as overturning from inspiring English sources
These data have yielded important findings, such as overturning the dogma of no postnatal neurogenesis in humans.
The October group see themselves as overturning the high modernist word of Clement Greenberg, champion of the abstract expressionists, in favour of a feminist and queer postmodernism.
Typically, the mechanisms involved include retribution against perpetrators through the criminal justice system, and reparations to victims, including the return of property, financial compensation for suffering, or symbolic gestures such as overturning unjust convictions – as well as simply saying sorry.
Campaigners point out that more needs to be done to stop transgender people, and hijra communities in particular, from being criminalised – such as overturning the controversial section 377 law that makes homosexual acts a crime.
Advocates are also hoping that Republicans, who will arrive back in Washington with a new Senate majority, will have their sights set on other matters, such as overturning President Obama's actions on immigration and health-care reform.
The geometrical characteristics of the body are chosen so that a collapse event, such as overturning or falling out from the support, is obtained for an excitation for which the behaviour of the frame remains in the elastic regime.
The Tirpitz was not so much sunk – the water was not deep enough – as overturned.
He did not go as far as to overturn Griggs v. Duke Power, the Court's 1971 precedent that established the disparate impact standard.
Contesting that historical and national vision is just as crucial as resisting and overturning the Orders' immediate effects.
Some blame compromised Republican leaders who have resolutely refused to do things — such as unilaterally overturning Obamacare — that they actually lack the constitutional power to do.
The Court ruled that slaves could not be counted as citizens, overturning the basis of the Missouri Compromise and inflaming national debate about slavery.
