Sentence examples for members overturned from inspiring English sources

"Do you really want to be remembered as a mayor who, along with 29 City Council members, overturned the will of the people?" When it was their turn, however, many who favored the legislation said that voters would have a chance to speak out on term limits at the polls next year, when Mr. Bloomberg seeks re-election.

Braun appealed the positive drug test in January 2012, and a three-member panel overturned the results on a 2-to-1 vote on February 22 , 2012

In a 5-3 ruling on Monday morning, the eight-member court overturned a 2013 Texas law that would have forced 10 abortion clinics in the state to close.

Despite the New Hampshire legislature having previously voted down attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, a 5-member Executive Council overturned these actions by a vote of 3-2 in a closed meeting without hearings.

It would be disgusting to permit City Council members to overturn it because they are self-interested.

Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.

The Boy Scouts of America will vote on Thursday on whether to accept gay youth members, partially overturning a long-running ban on allowing gay people to join the organisation.

"A John Lewis model would not allow members to overturn the whole system but they would have a decisive say on expenditure levels and the culture of the organisation".

Churchill was absent, writing a speech, but he agreed to a request by Spears to be allowed to try to get a majority of cabinet members to overturn the decision, which they did.

B6 Repeal of Term Limits Rebuffed A City Council committee, voting 5 to 4, rejected a move by some Council members to overturn term limits, dealing a severe, if not fatal, blow.

The advertisements — which compare politicians to dirty diapers in need of changing — are the most visible part of a growing campaign intended to stop Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council members from overturning the law without a voter referendum, as they have hinted they may do.