Sentence examples for like to overturn from inspiring English sources

Mr Bloom explained that he would like to overturn EU maternity legislation if his position allowed.

The UK Independence party today named a man who would like to overturn maternity leave rights as its representative for the European parliament's committee on women's rights and gender equality.

Joel DeLorge, 26, a junior political science major who belongs to the campus Republican club at Western Michigan, did not think the president conservative enough on abortion, arguing that "he's pro-life, but he didn't hit it home as he could have," especially when asked whether he would like to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Some members of Congress would like to overturn a controversial new policy that requires scientists with grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to post their papers in a free online database.

Some Republicans in Congress have said they would like to overturn the overtime rule early in the next Congress that convenes in January by using a rarely invoked law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

Bolivians would like to overturn the negative stigma attached to the coca leaf.

He also liked to overturn some of the received wisdom about teamwork.

Mr Alito and some other conservatives would probably have liked to overturn Abood v Detroit Board of Education, a 1977 precedent holding that public-school teachers who do not join a union must still contribute cash to its collective-bargaining efforts.

And, of course, he would have liked the Court to overturn Roe and declare that it has no authority to say anything about abortion.

I missed the desperation that goaded the real Coco — not just the sulks that pass like rain showers across Tautou's prettiness but that brisk contempt for existing conditions which led Chanel, like any French revolutionary, to overturn them.

In a recent essay in Commentary, Norman Podhoretz depicted President Ahmadinejad as a revolutionary, "like Hitler... whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it... with a new order dominated by Iran.... [T]he plain and brutal truth is that if Iran is to be prevented from developing a nuclear arsenal, there is no alternative to the actual use of military force".