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The measure was designed to overturn May's State Supreme Court decision, which made California the second state to end that exclusion of same-sex couples.

Congressional leaders have introduced legislation designed to overturn what they see as some of the worst civil liberties infractions of the 2005 REAL ID Act.

Whereas competitors in the first series of Robot Wars had largely featured passive weapons, the second series saw a greater number of robots including the series champion, Panic Attack using lifting and flipping weapons designed to overturn an opponent.

Organizations like The Leadership Institute, the Collegiate Network, and the National Journalism Center--an arm of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth organization--have been funneling millions of dollars into college newspapers and training programs designed to overturn what they believe to be a liberal bias on the part of the mainstream media.

But they deny that arming supporters is part of Mr. Chávez's grand design to overturn Venezuela's old social and economic order.

Columns or bridge piers can be designed to rock or overturn with minimal lateral resistance.

"[The actions against Law are] politically motivated, designed to have the decisions overturned by a new magistrate and amounted to an abuse of the rule of law," Eames said.

She points out that a set of rules designed to prevent robocalls was overturned a couple months ago, and that 20 petitions to the FCC under those rules for legal exemptions and such have yet to be addressed.

Last week, the House approved a bill overturning a rule designed to prevent people deemed by the Social Security Administration to be mentally impaired from owning a firearm.

The increases come after the Law Lords overturned a government scheme designed to stop illegal immigrants marrying.

Human Rights Watch said the law, which allows Russian court to overturn ECHR decisions if it deems them unconstitutional, is designed to thwart the ability of victims of human rights violations in Russia to find justice through international bodies.