Sentence examples for upturned it from inspiring English sources

There was, of course, the occasional success as well, but like the war in Iraq some of these, such as NATO's American-led rescue of Kosovo's Muslims, were ad hoc actions undertaken without the express permission (until after it was over) of the Security Council.Iraq is in itself a perfect refutation of the idea that the world was in apple-pie order before Mr Bush and Mr Blair upturned it.

The trains were filled with coal using canalside chutes at the colliery and pushed to the power station, where a hoist lifted each pan from the canal and upturned it to drop it contents onto a conveyor belt.

Having launched the film without a cinema release, Netflix has upturned what it means to peddle a movie to teenagers, focusing on word-of-mouth instead of market saturation.

Whenever pundits talk about the timing of any economic upturn, it's never long before someone uses the phrase "green shoots of recovery".

And even with the recent upturn, it's the city where homes sit on the market for the longest by far.

Barring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise – the one place where people upgrade their PCs at least once a year.

"It hurts everyone; it upturns our system of justice".

She stood on a plastic crate with a man's hat upturned in front of it, held a length of tulle across her arms and a flower in one hand, and paused.

If you've ever been hurled head-first into white water, you know the feeling: your world upturned, your hold on it spun loose, the current pitching you forward so fast you struggle to grasp what has happened to time.

The Queen Is Dead seemed to upturn all that, it seemed to blow away the dust and show the fossil underneath.

Yet it is they whose lives have been upturned.