Sentence examples for thus overturned from inspiring English sources

It thus overturned a decision it took in the spring, before the BP oil spill.

It thus overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal," which had been the law of the land since 1896, when Plessy v. Ferguson was decided.

Instead, the resolution was limited to saying that Arab leaders "decided that diplomatic relations between any Arab League member state and the Arab Republic of Egypt is a sovereign matter to be decided by each state in accordance with its constitution and laws". It thus overturned the previous convention that all decisions of the League had to be unanimous.

Political tables are thus overturned in a uniquely Israeli way.

On appeal, the Federal Circuit agreed with SmithKline Beecham's claim construction: " [N]othing in the '723 patent limits that structural compound to its commercial embodiments," and thus overturned Judge Posner on that issue.

It is therefore likely that the next president will have the opportunity to replace at least one of the pro-Roe votes, and thus overturn Roe.

The ruling party had that day sneaked a surprise motion through Congress, extending its present session by two weeks, thus overturning an OAS-brokered accord.

An appeals court ruled this week, for example, that the government could retry Mr. Suharto on charges of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from government charities, thus overturning a lower court ruling last month that had found him medically unfit to stand trial.

In Lawrence v. Texas, the Court ruled, six to three, that states could not criminalize sodomy between consenting adult homosexuals, thus overturning a seventeen-year-old precedent on the subject, Bowers v. Hardwick.

In 1954, however, the US supreme court, in the case of Brown v the school board of Topeka, Kansas, found that separate schools could not be considered equal, thus overturning more than 60 years of southern custom.

The evidence indicates that its draftsmen instead expected the clause only to declare unreservedly to [p285] whom citizenship initially adhered, thus overturning the restrictions both of Dred Scott and of the doctrine of primary state citizenship, while preserving Congress' authority to prescribe the methods and terms of expatriation.