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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:

School of Nursing needs your generous gifts to continue and uphold its educational excellence.
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.
The case law says, plain as day, that this is "constructive receipt" in 1997, and the question I face is whether a sane person should fight to uphold this principle after the Microsoft business-side characters have nonchalantly stuck him with a form 1099 showing those earnings as 1996 income.
William F. Buckley is not only a journalist, but a journalist who has written extensively about his own personal experiences; moreover, the first book Buckley ever published, God and Man at Yale , was, in part, an argument that Yale should uphold its antique tradition of inculcating Christian values and beliefs.
The Best American Recipes , Culturebox wishes to warn you in advance, is not for readers of Cook's Illustrated magazine or anyone else pledged to uphold gastronomical values.