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overrule

verb as in repeal

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If there are five justices who wish to overrule decisions like those of Atkins, Roper, and Miller, Jones potentially presents them with a way to do it.

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One report said Leach’s interview for the Tennessee job “went very well,” and another indicated that then-athletic director John Currie was prepared to hire Leach but was overruled by the administration.

If FDA career scientists get overruled by political appointees, that would also be a major sign of political pressure.

Let me give me you the three reasons why we think it should be overruled, and it was a very nice generous thing to do.

When they failed, thanks to a maneuver granted by a recent state law that allows a few large cities that represent a majority of the county’s population to overrule the rest of the board, they walked out.

He tried to contact a Health Republic doctor to overrule the nurse and get approval for payment.

First, he maintains that enactment of such a law “would overrule a historic Supreme Court decision.”

If all the mild mutineers could be induced to cling together, they could easily overrule Howe and his party.

I think it right to state the facts, because it shows how wonderfully God's grace can overrule.

Hope they'll overrule it—make a lot of difference to me if they don't.

It will, of course, overrule any conflicting view of the Provost-Marshal-General, if there be such.

We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it to overrule this.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overrule, such as: annul, disallow, invalidate, nullify, override, and overturn.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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