Sentence examples for the overturn from inspiring English sources
verb
To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
There were those, however, who lamented the overturn of the ban.
The year 1710 was marked by the overturn of the Whigs from power and a substantial Tory victory at the polls.
She asked me... two questions about abortion, and then she asked me if I was for the overturn of Roe versus Wade.
Mr. Christensen gives several detailed examples of this process, including the overturn of Sears, which pioneered chain stores and catalog marketing, by once-insignificant discount retailers.
After the overturn, Dr. Fujii was so stupefied and so tightly squeezed by the beams gripping his chest that he was unable to move at first, and he hung there about twenty minutes in the darkened morning.
One of the two candidates Mr. Akin defeated in the Republican primary last week supported the overturn of Roe v. Wade; the other supported a constitutional amendment saying life begins at conception.
The court could uphold the law, overturn the individual mandate or overturn the entire bill.
That doesn't actually make any sense, which is why for 35 years now this country's most dedicated abortion opponents have been essentially holding their noses as they accept as allies the rape-and-incest-exception people, the restrict-but-don't-prohibit people, the overturn-Roe-and-let-the-states-decide people.
That may result in the overturning of common sense.
I applaud the overturning of Prop 8 in California this week.
And Jerry Brown is supporting the overturning of Prop 8.
