Sentence examples for time overturned from inspiring English sources

Jon Platt, a father from the Isle of Wight who took his daughter on holiday to Disneyworld in Florida during term time, overturned a court fine after arguing that her unauthorised absence did not mean she failed to attend school regularly.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released the next year because he had already served time for the overturned conviction.

Several times during the experiments pig disturbance was evident within the study site, as indicated by expanses of overturned soil, overturned exclosures and pig tracks found in close proximity (sometimes <30 cm) to the seedlings.

The accident is reported to have involved two taxis, one of which was hit, while the other overturned several times as it tried to avoid the collision.

New contracts to run the fitness-to-work tests would be much more closely tied to the accuracy of assessments, measured by the number of times that decisions are overturned, with clear penalties for poor performance.

"The 22 times that the government was overturned, which we couldn't have done without the Lords, happened under his leadership," the source said.

Three times between 1960 and 1980, the Turkish military overturned civilian governments, justifying the coups by reference to its historical role as what Mr. Ergil called, "the gatekeeper of the state, the guardian of the nation".

Some can fail to even follow the procedures set out in their own regulations and by the time such improper decisions are reviewed or overturned students have suffered significantly.

By the time I had the ban on me overturned, the rest of the county surveyors in the chapter to which I belonged had taken the golden handshake-laced early retirement/voluntary redundancy package offered them by their district surveyors.

If only there was time to sign a petition to get that overturned on Ramos' behalf.

Creationists point out that in the past, major scientific revolutions have overturned theories that were at the time considered near-certain.