Sentence examples for the process of overturning from inspiring English sources

Mr Galloway, expelled by Labour in 2003, won the by-election by 10,140 votes, in the process of overturning a Labour majority of more than 5,000 at the 2010 general election.

They have started the process of overturning thousands of cannabis-related convictions.

Specifically, it instructs Congress to get the states started on the process of overturning Citizens United vs. FCC, the 2010 Supreme Court decision which freed corporations to contribute unlimited sums during electoral campaigns, essentially enabling them to buy elections.

Some 70 police officers are reportedly under investigation and more than 40 convictions have been or are in the process of being overturned by the office of District Attorney Gil Garcetti with the promise of more to come.

Hastings noted that the law, the Video Privacy Protection Act passed in 1988, is in the process of being reviewed and might be overturned in the U.S.. Viewing data raises all sorts of privacy concerns.

(Although it had already also kicked off the process of appealing the antitrust decision to try to overturn the record-breaking penalty).

During the process of loading goods and supplies onto the fleet, five small boats overturned and 15 men drowned.

The barrier wasn't very likely to overturn the law of supply and demand, but it did serve as a useful symbol of the process of alienation, a closing-off of lives and minds, along the line it traces.

President Bush and Congressional Republicans anticipated Greer's adverse ruling well before it was delivered and worked on a daily basis to find an alternative means of overturning the legal process by utilizing the authority of the United States Congress.

The appeals process for overturning the 1999 patent is sure to take years.

Thai culture has gone through a dizzying transformation, he explained, in which old hierarchical values have been overturned through the processes of globalisation, communications and technology.