Sentence examples for life overturned from inspiring English sources

The murky Passaic River sloshed just steps away from the door of Mayra Gutierrez-Amador's business on Monday, but she was too busy to notice, spending her ninth straight day salvaging a life overturned by Tropical Storm Irene.

Reverse that assumption - turn people into walking organ banks that haven't yet died - and, no matter how noble the intent, you bring death into the heart of life, overturning the relationship.

A year and a half ago, Laura Johnson's life was overturned in an instant.

Walter counts himself part of the village community, but – appropriately for a book that is all about power and belonging and ownership – will find himself alienated from gentlemen and labourers alike when the timeless certainties of village life are overturned.

One of his most high-profile early cases involved working alongside the Innocence Project and Cardiff University law students, which resulted in the murder conviction of a man wrongly sentenced to life being overturned on appeal.

21), an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel, set in the nineteen-sixties, about a prosperous suburban man whose life is overturned when his daughter (Dakota Fanning) commits an act of political terrorism.

Jennifer Steinhauer (NYT) MANHATTAN: MURDERER'S CHALLENGE REJECTED A woman convicted of murdering her husband with an ax failed to have her sentence of life imprisonment overturned when a federal judge rejected her contention that her trial lawyers had been ineffective.

I won't summarize the plot again (suffice it to say that it's about a married suburban family man whose home life is overturned by the arrival of a girlfriend from his past); I introduced the movie and talked with some of the viewers afterwards, and the discussions centered on the cultural context in which Sirk, a German immigrant, locates the story.