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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overrule.

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Examples

  • The only way for the SCOTUS decision overruled is a Constitutional amendment.

    Think Progress » Pelosi Welcomes Tea Partiers To Join Progressives In Fighting Against Special Interests 2010

  • Senators might waste their time on questions about Korematsu v. United States (1944), which, although never overruled, is considered by nearly everyone to be one of the Court's four or five worst decisions ever.

    Is That Legal?: Supreme Court Archives 2006

  • Norman saved that third match point with a forehand winner, and eventually won the game when Pareau again overruled a linesman and called a forehand by Kuerten long.

    Kuerten captures French Open 2000

  • Chief Justice McLachlin, it states, "overruled" their votes, which, one supposes, is an insane way of saying that they were outvoted in a ballot conducted by the Chief Justice.

    Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008

  • The judge kind of overruled them without making an official order, but basically said she wanted those children to be placed with their mothers.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • You know, he'd say "overruled" when he was supposed to say "sustained."

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas' - June 20, 2000 2000

  • They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is 'overruled' already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

  • But the complaints were "overruled," he said, by both the Phoenix office and bureau headquarters in Washington, D.C.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • "The rather frightening part is the President of the United States" overruled "and ousted the top Executive of a publicly traded company." unquote.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

  • For example, he refused to enforce laws that protected whistle-blowers, he 'overruled' many provisions of congressional appropriations bills he felt impinged on his power, he 'overruled' the Congressional requirement that he report back on how he has implemented a number of laws.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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