Sentence examples for on overruling from inspiring English sources

I suspect that it will be too late by the time my fellow Parsis wake up to the fact that survival urgently depends on overruling archaic laws.

The civil-rights revolution of the Warren and Burger Courts, in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, was built on overruling the expressed will of the people, as when the Court rejected laws that prohibited racial intermarriage, or laws that banned abortion.

Prosecuting a judge for issuing a controversial decision, even one overruled on appeal (in a split decision), is a dangerous attack on judicial independence.

In its effort to regain trust, the BBC said it would apologize to "Blue Peter" viewers on Tuesday evening for overruling them on the name of the cat.

The reasons for overruling on initial presentation were considered medical in 111 (90.2%) subjects, biopsychosocial and functional in two (1.6%), organisational in five (4.1%) and patient's preference in five (4.1%).

After the disaster at the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy stopped trusting his military advisers, and went on to overrule them during the Cuban missile crisis and, again and again, on Vietnam.

The court went on to overrule the 1984 precedent, and Nussbaum's equality principle illuminates why this was the better call.

While the Congressional Review Act is a useful tool to put the regulators on notice, overruling actions by executive agencies still requires the approval of both houses of Congress, as well as a signature by the president.

I suspect Cook might just have gloved it – but the evidence is not conclusive enough for the third umpire to overrule the on-field decision.

Like the mayor, she used to call it an assault on democracy to overrule the people's will.

One message to the governor's office reminded that the boys were "good soldiers" who depended on him to overrule his environmental commissioner.