Sentence examples for overturn anything from inspiring English sources
"To be honest we prayed [the appeal court] would find in her favour last year, but we knew in Texas they weren't going to overturn anything.
But his lawyers have acknowledged that such a contest is a steep uphill path that has not been taken in modern times to overturn anything larger than a local Florida race.
Here is both a sumptuous Diwali treat and another object lesson in the power of mediated fantasy to overturn anything so piffling or painful as reality: for three hours, this charm offensive successfully returns us to the company of the planet's most likable fellow.
"We rarely overturn anything supported locally," said Patrick Andrus, a historian at the National Register.
Then we can start thinking about longer-term possibilities of a fuller re-alignment of progressive forces, anything to overturn the hegemony of rightwing parties such as the Conservatives and Ukip, both of whom have stood aside to assist Zac.
So he turns to the Governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, and asks her if she's got anything against overturning a law that, among other things, requires Utah to allow African Americans to join the University of Utah marching band, resulting in the need to offer remedial rhythm classes to white students.
He did some time in Catholic school, and his writing bears traces of the church's stark moral clarity, most notable in his impatience with postmodern or queer theorizing or anything that might overturn the centrality of the stable nuclear family.
"My guess," Mr. Garin added, "is that more voters will think, 'If they can do that, they can do just about anything — and that includes overturning Roe v. Wade' " — the landmark 1973 abortion rights decision.
But in South Africa, where the moral conventions of the past have recently been overturned and everyone is rather confused, anything goes.Take a recent radio commercial for Nando's, a chain of chicken-burger joints.
This week's vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and restore our democracy is anything but a "distraction" or partisan diversion, as some opponents have said.
They came into court as likely winners, on the basis of the justices' action on Saturday, and understandably displayed little interest in helping the court do anything but flatly overturn the Florida Supreme Court ruling last Friday that ordered the new recount.
