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Example sentences for: uphold

How can you use “uphold” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A scheme so inconsistent with accepted separation-of-powers principles is an insufficient basis to sustain or uphold the restriction on speech.
He wrote, "Che offered his life to the cause of the disinherited, but he did it by offering a political method that, in the long run, had disastrous effects on whoever tried to uphold it.
Bush has promised that as president he would uphold the dignity of that office, and pundits wonder how he can talk about some aspects of his personal life without discussing other, less pleasant parts of his past.
To uphold that image, magazine editors need to circulate at the top of New York society.