Sentence examples for directly overturn from inspiring English sources

Those tribunals can't directly overturn laws, but they can impose hefty fines on the countries they rule against.

Although the Supreme Court did not directly overturn any laws criminalizing same-sex relationships, the language of the court decision offers hope to the LGBTQ community.

While the election commission's vote doesn't directly overturn the ruling by the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court, it does allow for freedmen to cast provisional ballots in an effort to make the election results stand, regardless of how the courts ultimately rule.

The company says it's going directly to President George W. Bush to overturn the latest ruling, and analysts seem optimistic this will not affect its short-term business.

Katie Couric interviewed Laura Bush on the day before her husband's first inauguration and asked her directly if she "was for the overturn of Roe versus Wade, Bushh said.

Wunsch's findings demonstrate how difficult it is to "directly estimate changes in the ocean's overturning circulation," adds physical oceanographer Terrence Joyce of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, another House bill introduced by New York Democrat Maurice Hinchey Maurice Hinchey that would have overturned the FCC action more directly, including aspects other than the local-station ownership cap, was defeated on a separate 254-to-174 vote.

Conservation opponents have learned over the years that it is much harder to overturn our nation's conservation laws directly, so instead, they chip away at them indirectly through waivers, burdensome amendments and severe budget reductions.

The lawyers, Robert C. Gottlieb and Celia A. Gordon, are employing a relatively uncommon approach in trying to get Mr. Velazquez's conviction overturned: They are filing a report directly with the Manhattan district attorney's office, rather than with a judge.

Though the verdict was overturned, it showed that the taboo against directly criticising the king is still fiercely upheld.

There were cases in which a vehicle had overturned in shallow water or had driven directly into water and passengers were not able to exit the vehicle.