Sentence examples for be overturned for from inspiring English sources
verb
To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
To the contrary, the current federal statute — and the many state ones modeled on it — provides that an arbitration award may be overturned for a variety of reasons, including evident partiality, corruption and misconduct by the arbitrators.
On Wednesday, Hogan-Howe became the first serving police chief to back Boris Johnson's proposal for the presumption of innocence to be overturned for Britons who travel to war zones.
Burt Neuborne, the lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case today, said that the abortion case, Rust v. Sullivan, was wrongly decided but did not have to be overturned for his clients in the legal services case to prevail.
But Roe doesn't have to be overturned for abortion access to be curtailed.
It could be overturned for a particularly virulent or large outbreak, however similar measures were taken during the eradication programme and were effective in controlling historical outbreaks [ 32].
Even larger buckets or plastic tubs can be overturned for a very deep bass drum sound.
By 1989, the convictions of nine of the defendants had been overturned for insufficient evidence.
His conviction at his first trial was overturned for lack of corroboration by independent witnesses.
The conservancy appealed the rejection, and it was overturned for technical reasons on July 19.
The expropriation was overturned for being arbitrary, disproportionate and lacking proper compensation.Now it is the turn of Mr Barrow, himself a lawyer, to defend the nationalisation.
An official document issued after his imprisonment, saying that his sentence had been overturned "for lack of evidence of a crime".
