Sentence examples for refuse to overturn from inspiring English sources

Despite those findings, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission strongly signaled that it was likely to refuse to overturn any of the more than $40 billion in long-term power contracts that California and others on the West Coast signed at the height of the crisis.

The White House refused to overturn the ban in August.

But the Supreme Court today refused to overturn the Court of Appeal's decision.

But the judge refused to overturn the conviction of the man, Wadih El-Hage.

A judge in New Jersey refused to overturn his conviction, saying Mr. McCarthy had tried to "throw his weight around".

The court refused to overturn Roe but allowed the state to ban the use of its funds for abortions and related counseling.

This week, those maverick 14 senators refused to overturn nearly 100 years of constitutional precedent to satisfy Republican extremism and granted a somewhat undeserved victory to the Democrats.

Last October, an Iranian appeals court refused to overturn either of Panahi's punishments, and he is still under house arrest, awaiting an appeal to a higher court.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard the appeal and in an order dated Sept. 15, 2008, refused to overturn Judge Kaplan's ruling.

The court refused to overturn a lower court's dismissal of the suit, but Mr. Briffault said he does not expect the issue to go away.

Sweeping away every legal argument presented by Vice President Al Gore, a Florida circuit judge today refused to overturn Gov. George W. Bush's victory in the state's presidential election.