Sentence examples for overturn a few from inspiring English sources

Years before he scrutinised nymphet-mania in his remake of Lolita, Lyne encouraged Michael Douglas and Glenn Close to overturn a few items while coupling in a kitchen in Fatal Attraction.

Now a radiocarbon study concludes that much of the assumed chronology was right, though it corrects some controversial dates and may overturn a few pet theories.

Q: Do you think this series could help to overturn a few stereotypes about older people?

However, Cole failed in his arguments to overturn a few words in the Patriot Act that broadened "Material Support of Terrorism" to encompass "expert advice and assistance" to designated "foreign terrorist organizations".

That act should help overturn a few rules which, to date, have held back greater adoption of crowdfunding for startups.

Kidd has already overturned a few basketball certainties in the area.

The convictions were overturned a few months later after the US attorney general, Eric Holder, said there was serious misconduct by prosecutors.

Sandy had his lifetime ban from going to Rangers games overturned a few years ago, and now he's a reformed character, devoting himself to coaching the kids at Drumsagard.

Anti-gay campaigners accused Mr Museveni of leaning on the court to overturn the law, a few days before he was due to fly, along with dozens of other African leaders, to Washington for an America-Africa summit.

According to Lazarus's "Closed Chambers," liberal clerks were so concerned that O'Connor would overturn Roe that a few female clerks toyed with the idea of having one of them fake an unwanted pregnancy and break down while discussing it in the locker room after O'Connor's morning aerobics class, so that the justice was certain to overhear.

The Government decided that the result was not a true indication of the House's opinion and overturned the vote a few days later.