Sentence examples for designed to overrule from inspiring English sources

The Terry Schiavo right-to-die debacle of March 2005 in which prominent Republicans, including the president, conspired to pass a law specifically designed to overrule the Florida judges who had granted Schiavo's husband the right to remove her feeding tube marked the pinnacle of theocon influence.

The bill was designed to overrule the 1911 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dr. Miles case (Dr. Miles v. John D. Park & Sons), in which the Court held that certain vertical resale price agreements substantially lessened competition as effectively as any horizontal agreement and were in violation of the Sherman Act.

Mr Cameron has announced the move will be in the new Government's Queen's Speech on May 27 and is designed to prevent the European Court of Human Rights being able to overrule British courts over issues such as prisoner rights.

(Texas lawmakers overruled the mandate, which Mr. Perry has always said was designed to protect young girls from cervical cancer).

Overall, they agreed that HIPAA generally is designed to prevent abuses of patient confidentiality and discrimination, although certain areas of disagreement exist with respect to HIPAA overruling less stringent state standards for protecting PHI.

The day before the architects made their final pitches, a committee of development corporation directors had recommended that the Think team's design be chosen, and one committee member told The New York Times, "We don't expect anyone to overrule us".

To overrule them would have been divisive.

Our panel decided to overrule the public.

"You don't want to overrule Grutter," she said.

But it is deeply unusual to overrule them.

The Supreme Court declined to overrule the Miranda decision.