Sentence examples for overturned for from inspiring English sources

By 1989, the convictions of nine of the defendants had been overturned for insufficient evidence.

His conviction at his first trial was overturned for lack of corroboration by independent witnesses.

The conservancy appealed the rejection, and it was overturned for technical reasons on July 19.

An official document issued after his imprisonment, saying that his sentence had been overturned "for lack of evidence of a crime".

The profession is in this pickle only because Andersen, the auditor of Enron and WorldCom, collapsed in 2002 after its conviction (later overturned) for obstruction of justice.

Martinet agreed, and in New Orleans he began talking to sympathetic railroad officials who wanted the law overturned for their own financial reasons.

Table 4 summarizes the results of the dam stability analysis against sliding and overturning for different types of foundations.

Equations for additional margins of design lateral pressure coefficient and/or safety factors against sliding and overturning for the wall, expressed as a function of maximum foundation settlement, are proposed to substantiate the safety evaluation of soil retaining walls situated on a deformable foundation.

Such a tribunal would likely overturn, for example, an after-the-fact raise in the liability limit (or in the royalties companies had to pay).

Dear Governor McCrory, We write with concerns about legislation you signed into law this week, House Bill 2, which has overturned protections for LGBT people and sanctioned discrimination across North Carolina.

Just to name a few highlights: they overturned protection for trans students in schools.