Upend

The Fed's new rules "upend" the card business and fast-forwarding them would "create huge implementation challenges," said Kenneth Clayton, senior vice president of card policy at the American Bankers Association. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Speaking during the first of the BBC Daily Politics debates between party spokesmen, the foreign secretary said Cameron appeared to want to "upend" sixty years of cooperation with the Chinese. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Departing Justice David H. Souter sided with the minority in this case, expressing dismay in his dissent and suggesting the decision could "upend," said the Times, the federal civil litigation system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

New economic problems could "upend" the last leg of the presidential ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the final, megawatt face-off goes down between the two people who have the most at stake when and if the ends truly justify the means, with a secret of severe malfeasance between them that would not only upend the campaign but also many lives. ❋ Felice Arenas (2011)

But a win by Mr. Gingrich would upend the perception that Mr. Romney is the inevitable GOP nominee. ❋ Brody Mullins (2012)

Besides, if a still-hidden mortgage cancer does erupt, it will upend smaller banks as much as the big boys. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2012)

He had come into power, in 1969, against the background of the time—an era when the Arab world still believed that rough men from the military would dispense justice, upend the old order of kings and notables, and bring about a "revolutionary" society. ❋ Fouad Ajami (2011)

It's the way the results have been forged — just as with the way the Jets' successes have — that upend the traditional image of the tough disciplinarian NFL coach. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)

Their abrupt departures—following a series of controversial public comments by Mr. Ratner—threatened to upend what is typically a meticulously calculated, lavish affair. ❋ Erica Orden (2011)

Stages four and five scale the climbs of Cameron Highlands and Genting Highlands, and are guaranteed to upend the general classification. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Harder to estimate is how irrational fears could upend those calculations. ❋ Peter Stein (2011)

In an unusual show of collaboration, New Jersey's public worker unions plan to join together to try to upend Gov. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

Out of the corner of my good eye, I saw Saro upend his shot. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[He/She] makes me [feel] so [upendous]! I feel upendous! ❋ GingerMY (2017)

He was a highly talented upender who had come from a long line of successful and generally [ruthless] [corporate] [raiders]. ❋ Dr Bunnygirl (2023)