Sentence examples for rather than overturn from inspiring English sources

In other areas, such as Afghanistan, he set out to complete Bush's agenda rather than overturn it.

Some think it is more likely that the agency would impose restrictions on the sale rather than overturn it.

The Labour leadership contender Owen Smith said that a move towards grammar schools would "entrench disadvantage" rather than overturn it.

Other people in Neuilly who know Jean well say that he is a quieter, less confrontational person than his father: someone who likes to build consensus rather than overturn convention.

He predicted that rather than overturn the standards it set in 2003, the court would amend them or alter the way they are carried out, restricting the use of race without eliminating it.

That means any close calls go in favor of affirming, rather than overturning, the conviction.

This group are technically 'new species' but the rate of discovery is often defined by the improving technologies rather than overturning new stones.

He added that the immigrant experience of Scotland has not yet been fully expressed in its fiction (no Scottish Zadie Smith), and was anxious about young Scottish writers imitating, rather than overturning, the literary models of the 1980s and 90s.

Rather than overturning the court's June decision in the new case, which involves two Virginia cocaine trafficking convictions, the justices may simply clarify the ground rules for when and how analysts' testimony must be presented.

The court's ruling was narrower than expected, limiting its decision to the Austin district rather than overturning, as Mr. Blum intended, the so-called preclearance provision of the law requiring many state and local governments, mostly in the South, to seek federal permission before making even minor changes to voting procedures.

And despite being yet another Catholic, making a potential five on the court, Mr Alito seems to believe in restricting rather than overturning Roe v Wade: he struck down a New Jersey law banning partial-birth abortion because it did not include an exemption for cases where the mother's life is at risk.Second, the Republicans are in a commanding position in the Senate.