verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overrule/overturn a decision (= officially change a decision by another person or group )
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A director of the company had overruled that decision.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
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The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.
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Only eight years later, in Garcia, the Court overruled National League.
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The Court thus refrained from overruling the decision of the President or censuring the conduct of the political parties.
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The state Court of Criminal Appeals overruled the hearing, however, declaring that Brown had overstepped his authority.
decision
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The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.
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It took three constitutional amendments after the Civil War to overrule his decision .
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The Court thus refrained from overruling the decision of the President or censuring the conduct of the political parties.
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A company executive turned her down for the letter, but miraculously, the director of the company overruled that decision .
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Their lordships overruled earlier decisions saying otherwise.
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A pragmatist judge might possibly decide, in such a case, to overrule these past decisions .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A general commanding American troops on the battlefield found himself overruled by politicians back in Washington.
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After seeing new evidence the judge overruled the court's original decision.
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The Supreme Court overruled the lower court's decision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he may not have the power to overrule the precedents; in any case, reasons of strategy argue against this.
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Even so, the conventions of the group inevitably overrule the preferences of individual members.
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It took three constitutional amendments after the Civil War to overrule his decision.
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The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.