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The 1780s saw the emergence of the Sturm und Drang movement, which attempted to overturn the ethos of the German Enlightenment.
Japan will lead the charge to overturn a ban on commercial whaling when the International Whaling Commission meets in just over a week.
It is perfectly possible that an alternative government would overturn a hunting ban.
Anti-abortion activists launched a petition campaign on January 22 in a bid to overturn the veto.
Supreme Court Justices are ultimate lawmakers under our Constitution, for they can overturn the lawmaking of all others.
The 1996 law severely restricts the ability of federal courts to overturn decisions in state trials.
Regulars in a Westbury pub are backing a landlord's bid to overturn the decision to revoke his late licence by contributing towards legal fees.
The National Government explicitly declined to legislate in order to overturn that precedent.
What Davis described in his speech, a nationwide drive to overturn elections and rig the political system, is a deadly serious matter.
However, eddying mixing motion can overturn this density profile, momentarily lifting heavy water above light water.
He's been attempting to overturn the conviction because the police tracked his burner phone to a Texas rest stop.
So it is very hard to see how the teleological argument, any more than the cosmological, can overturn the argument from evil.
What is sought now to be done is to ask the court to overturn a conviction because he made a decision not to call evidence.
We in the West End are fully behind any efforts to try and overturn this decision.
Beauty salon owners in America have won their battle to overturn plans that would have banned bikini waxes.
The treaty only served to anger the nationalist Turks who sought to overturn it.
The analysis presented here shows that filling in some blanks in the current matrix will not overturn the optimal hypothesis it supports.
An originalist Court could even overturn some of those victories as unanchored in the Constitution.
He will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.
Judge Linda Sutcliffe, sitting with two magistrates, agreed to overturn the ban.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This game resembles Battle Ball in that it consists in trying to overturn Indian clubs or tenpins set up in the opponents' court.
With that you overturn all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth.
There were times when even the half-track had to crawl or it would overturn.
Ever, when we re-count the tale, there is something to overturn the theories of the police.
This will unhinge and overturn all polities, and, instead of government and order, leave nothing but anarchy and confusion.
The shock of the overturn was so violent that the young countess, roused from her lethargy, threw off her coverings and rose.
They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram.
Nor is even this way without danger, for these destructive animals overturn the floats, and tear the passengers in pieces.
Yes, you saw only the torrent that threatened to overturn everything and you gave no attention to the still water.
Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero.
In the name of the Deity he sent dragoons to overturn parliaments.
And even if it does not overturn, if it fails, it will not end, but pause.
In case of an overturn or accident, the two would be swept among them.
It is not yet known what caused the lorry, which was carrying containers of the chemical substance, to overturn.
Democracy has on one side to assimilate aristocracy, and not overturn it.
Platini, who wants to run for the FIFA presidency, had his first attempt to overturn the provisional ban rejected by FIFA's appeal committee.
This is why any attempt to overturn the decrees of ecumenical councils is forcefully anathematized.
I'll have no clumsy beasts enter my palace, to overturn and break all my pretty nick-nacks.
The alternative hypothesis is often what we are hoping to prove by gathering enough evidence to overturn the null hypothesis.
The strategy backfired, however, when Flores successfully filed suit to overturn the residency law and narrowly outpolled Granato in the February election.
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