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Example sentences for: upholding

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This represents a small but telling victory for those Democrats--I call them Money Liberals--for whom getting cash to the poor, not upholding the work ethic, is the most important thing.
Scott Shuger explained that "Senate Republican leaders are feeling their oats over yesterday's Supreme Court decision upholding Proposition 209 and are suggesting that Lee and any other future nominees to the post will face a tough new standard on affirmative action."
Therefore, when journalists present the court's decision to decline to review a case as "upholding" the lower court's decision, they mislead and confuse the public.
It is a terrible responsibility, upholding her society's values and preventing her siblings and Michael, the illegitimate son of her youngest sister, Christina (Catherine McCormack), from descending into chaos and impoverishment.
The Daily Telegraph , however, extolled NATO as "the only organisation capable of upholding the international order" and defended its Yugoslavia offensive as a means of keeping the United States happy.