Word: overturn
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...Foley's efforts to pass an assault-weapons ban have provoked the National Rifle Association, which had once awarded him its Defender of Freedom award, to run TV ads against him. Also weighing in is Illinois-based Americans for Limited Terms, which is outraged over Foley's lawsuit to overturn his own state's term-limit initiative. All told, outside groups are spending an estimated $350,000 to defeat the Speaker...
...M.E.A., along with the American Civil Liberties Union and others, has actually taken legal action to overturn Michigan's rather liberal charter law. Michigan is unusual in allowing private schools to apply for charter status. In fact, most of Michigan's first charters were granted to former private schools. The M.E.A. argues that these schools are not truly public and cannot legally receive public funds. Last week a Michigan judge sent a chill through the charter community by temporarily holding up disbursement of $11 million in state funding until the matter is resolved...
...Social Democrats say they will not be cooperative: they vow to do their best to overturn the ruling coalition before its term is over. Though his party has lost the past four elections, Social Democratic leader Rudolf Scharping calls Kohl's alliance "a coalition of losers." Kohl did not seem worried last week. "A majority is a majority," he observed. Correct, and ! Helmut Schmidt, one of Germany's most effective Chancellors, governed for six years with an identical 10-seat margin. For that matter, Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor in 1949 by a majority of only one seat. Kohl is betting...
...have enormous turnover already...People can overturn [someone] if they don't want the incumbent," Wolf says. "It is a simplistic solution to a problem that can be pretty much handled by a little democracy...
Last September, the undergraduate members of the fly voted 28-0 with one abstention to overturn the club's 157-year-old all-male policy...