Sentence examples for quashing from inspiring English sources

In November 2011 Gloucestershire library users won a high court judicial review against Gloucestershire County Council's (GCC's) plans to close 10 static libraries and all mobile libraries, and reduce opening hours and services at many more, with Judge McKenna quashing the council's plans entirely.

If there were any remaining doubts that arms sales take precedence over human rights or concerns about exacerbating regional tensions, the British government has been unashamedly quashing them.

Quashing his murder conviction, Hallett said there was now significant material before the court that supported Hallam's story that he was not at the scene of the murder on the night.

The most important is a widespread belief that the scope of payments would be calibrated to avoid harming the bank's solvency, thus quashing the beginnings of panic.

The case is one of four hanging over Italy's prime minister; the most scurrilous, which involves an underage prostitute, comes to trial on April 6th.Tensions between Bosnia's fractious ethnic groups mounted when the EU's representative irked Croats by quashing an election-commission ruling that had paralysed politics in the Federation (the Muslim and Croat part of the country).

These dragged on for two years, without managing to silence Mr Malema.But his latest sally, accusing Mr Zuma of quashing dissent and replacing democracy with dictatorship, proved the last straw.

In Mississippi, only medical exemptions are allowed, with the consequence that 99.7% of the state's kindergartners are fully vaccinated.Are they quashing freedom in Mississippi?

Now, in the middle of this drawn-out timetable, the supreme court has turned the contest upside-down, by quashing a corruption conviction against Akbar Tandjung, the leader of the party and one of the seven remaining candidates for its nomination.The upheavals in Golkar, in turn, are altering calculations about the presidential election as a whole.

Now the public is more sympathetic to the goal of quashing the radicals and the government has been jolted into a more serious effort.America has boosted aid to Yemen to some $300m this year.

The idea is to compensate innocent people who do time in error, without rewarding guilty ones whose convictions are quashed on a technicality: the standards for quashing and paying are different.

The statement said after receiving legal advice, the force believed the original IPCC decision first needed to be quashed and it had assured the watchdog that it would not oppose any application for a quashing order, but said the IPCC had advised it planned to re-investigate without a quashing order.