overturn

Object

• ruling: Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said the government would try to overturn the ruling in the Court of Appeal.
• circulation: This extra cold fresh water could halt the overturning circulation, stopping all this extra heat reaching Northern Europe.
• deficit: Spanish side Sevilla did manage to overturn a first leg deficit against Lille.
• verdict: THE High Court has overturned an unlawful killing inquest verdict on a teenage boy who drowned during an activity holiday.
• conviction: In February she lost an appeal to overturn the convictions.
• moratorium: The meeting ended with a rebuff to an Australian bid to overturn a six-year-old global moratorium on GURTs.

Preposition: on

appeal: We are confident it will be overturned on appeal.

Subject

• judgment: The decision is binding and can only be overturned by a judgment of the High Court or the Pensions Ombudsman.
• court: An initial ruling that it was illegal to lock up asylum seekers even for 10 days was overturned by the court of appeal.
• vote: The amendment was overturned by 263 votes to 96.

Modifying Another Word

• subsequently: However, the Director of Social Services subsequently overturned this decision.
• completely: Coaches could easily pitch onto one side while rattling down steep hills or around ugly corners and they could overturn completely into ditches.
• successfully: Yesterday, his conviction was successfully overturned by Judge Peter Bowers sitting at Teesside Crown Court.
• thus: Priestley thus overturned the traditional philosophical belief of a dichotomy between matter and energy.
• quickly: It was this popularity that helped to quickly overturn the attempt to put Lady Jane Gray onto the throne of England.

Preposition: at

appeal: We must count on it being overturned at appeal.

Preposition: in

court: But this judgment was overturned in the appeal court.

Preposition: by

• judgment: The decision is binding and can only be overturned by a judgment of the High Court or the Pensions Ombudsman.
• court: An initial ruling that it was illegal to lock up asylum seekers even for 10 days was overturned by the court of appeal.
• vote: The amendment was overturned by 263 votes to 96.