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Example sentences for: uphold

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The Supreme Court did not "uphold" Proposition 209.
Meanwhile, the WP front observes firm differences about gender on display in the Court's 6-3 decision to uphold the law that automatically grants U.S. citizenship to an out-of-wedlock child if the mother is an American, but not if only the father is.
All the data were log transformed prior to analysis to uphold assumptions of normality of error and homogeneity of variance.
The United States has failed to improve living conditions or uphold the authority of President René Preval.
The liberal Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz strongly criticized the United States Monday for its failure to get tough with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Washington's unwillingness to demand that Israel uphold the commitments it undertook in the Oslo and Hebron accords is now threatening to undermine the most vital system of checks and balances in the diplomatic arena."