Sentence examples for were being overturned from inspiring English sources

Her key insight, it becomes clear, was seeing American creativity in the context of a culture whose premises were being overturned.

The home affairs committee also suggested that the Home Office review its country advice on Iran, given that such a large number of decisions were being overturned on appeal.

Dr. Rita Bernabei, the group's leader, said in an e-mail message that assertions that her team's findings were being overturned were incorrect and that criticisms of the work by physicists around the world had no basis in fact.

It's no accident, I think, that someone discovered the G-spot just at the moment when traditional ideas about how women reach orgasm were being overturned; it's a more woman-friendly way of saying the same old thing about the primacy of sexual intercourse for both sexes.

Near Maalbeek, cars were being checked and bags were being overturned, while the streets were full of police vans coming and going.

"The rule of law is being overturned," she said.

Houses are being overturned in search of old tickets.

However, the majority of these rejections are being overturned on appeal.

And those awards that civil juries do make are being overturned with greater frequency.

Which is why, in a bout of art historical conjuration, his reputation as an "unsuccessful artist" is being overturned.

Ideas about "rational" economic man are being overturned by new ones from a discipline called behavioural economics.