Word: overturned
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This would overturn the ruling, voted by the Faculty in 1927, which requires courses regularly open to freshmen to continue to meet during the last two weeks before examinations. It would not necessarily affect those upper-level science courses which do not observe the reading period...
Blunt Saying. On a motion of censure against the government, the opposition piled up an impressive 207 votes, only 70 short of the number needed to defeat the bill and overturn the government. But the opposition was stronger in numbers than in cohesion: the 207 votes came from a coalition stretching from far right to far left, from men who, on most issues, hate each other more intensely than they dislike De Gaulle. It represented, nevertheless, the most defiant gesture by Parliament since De Gaulle took power...
...later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...