How to Use overrule in a Sentence
overrule
verb- The judge overruled the objection.
- His conviction was overruled by the supreme court.
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And the Swedes pointed out that the police had tried to ban the protest but were overruled by the courts.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 6 July 2023
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The vote was non-binding and can be overruled by the streamer’s board.
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The judge in that case overruled jurors and sentenced Smith to die.
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The families’ lawyers have asked the judge overseeing the case, George B. Daniels, to overrule her.
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The only person in the program who can overrule Blanchard is McGuire and the two are very much on the same page.
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The judge has no power to overrule the jury and impose the death penalty.
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Soller said Lara was not involved in a decision to overrule the judge.
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To be a local official is to run the risk of being overruled.
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Pryor’s court has overruled Cannon twice in the Trump case.
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Each time Lindhome thought about it, her heart overruled her brain.
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That means that there are now five justices who seem likely to vote to overrule Roe v. Wade.
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And Biden’s White House has the right to overrule a Trump effort to block the release of information.
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The answer lies in how the WGA classifies it and whether the Academy could or would overrule that choice.
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The City Council and Planning Commission can overrule the vote with a two-thirds vote.
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The state is not asking the court to overrule Roe vs. Wade or later cases that reaffirmed it.
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Almost the same amount of people (61 percent) think judges should not be able to overrule FDA approval of a drug.
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The second would be to give each team a certain number of challenges to overrule the umpire.
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But three of the justices on the court have changed since, all of them replaced by President Trump and all three of whom went on to overrule Roe.
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The goal was originally overruled on the ice and then ruled a good goal by the replay center in Toronto.
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Yet he was overruled by the opera company owner, who fired Yaw.
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The Democrats were overruled continuously over and over and over again.
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Could the Supreme Court reverse itself and overrule McCleskey some day?
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The coach needed to overrule the player’s wishes in the team's best interest.
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Judges at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Labrador’s request to overrule that ban late last month.
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The Moscow court that will hear the appeal can choose to leave Griner’s verdict in place, overrule it and send it back to the lower court, or reduce Griner’s prison term.
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While Texas A&M may object, our guess here is the court of public opinion will overrule the objection and move to strike.
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After support staff and others removed the debris from the field, the referees ended up overruling the PI call in favor of Texas.
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In their letter to the DOJ, the election officials urged the agency to overrule concerns about appearing partisan.
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