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The Westminster expenses regulator has voiced concerns about the way some MLAs have been overturning refusals of their claims.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2016

We have been overturning the breakwaters that the ocean may swamp us.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James