Sentence examples for overturn the act from inspiring English sources

Yet a cabal of well-financed individuals lacking the legislative power to overturn the act has striven to overrule the will of the people and hatched a plot to kill this statute by whatever means necessary.

She said a future Labour government would overturn the act and "unpick the worst of the damage".

This does not appear to be a legitimate basis for overturning the act.

The GOP-led House has voted nearly 40 times to repeal all or part of Obama's healthcare law, for example, but hasn't succeeded in overturning the act — although it has cut its funding.

Jefferson succeeded Adams as president, in part due to the unpopularity of the latter's sedition prosecutions; he and his party quickly overturned the Acts and pardoned those imprisoned by them.

Call on your U.S. representatives to overturn the Patriot Act and on your state representatives to do the same to any state Patriot Acts.

But Cameron claims in his speech that he is "investigating the case for a UK bill of rights", which would overturn the Human Rights Act, to "get better at implementing the convention at national level".

Tony Robles, who came from San Francisco's Senior & Disability Action and whose family has lived in the city for five generations, wanted help from the tech community to overturn the Ellis Act at the state level.

If Mr. Romney is elected and a Republican-led Congress presents him with a bill overturning the Ledbetter act, would he sign it, following the path of his hero, Mr. Walker?

But even though Alaska's Congressional and business leaders no longer talk of overturning the Lands Act, they say it has blocked access to many areas and stifled needed development in rural communities.

Few seemed to have figured out a political strategy for overturning the Abortion Act either.