Sentence examples for Once upheld from inspiring English sources

The second is the weakening of American institutions and the norms they once upheld — Congress, banks, schools, grocers.

This is a single-minded, relentlessly targeted song, preoccupied with stripping bare the illusions that once upheld an individual's life (and a milieu's lifestyle).

The Israelis right, center, and left have long been wary of the U.N., a venue that once upheld the notion that Zionism is a form of racism and passes relatively frequent condemnations of Israeli actions, but which does not have the political wherewithal to sanction Russia for bombing hospitals and aide convoys in Syria or countless other states for their more heartless and illegal transgressions.

It was this kind of unquestioning belief in rational self-interest which slowly tore apart the fabric of Protestant morality, which had once upheld this great nation.

There is, it must be said, a certain honesty to the story, which suggests that recycled, second-hand junk is superior to the latest high-tech upgrades, a moral the movie at once upholds and refutes.

The case was decided in December 1944, when the Court once again upheld the government's right to relocate Japanese Americans, although Korematsu's, Hirabayashi's and Yasui's convictions were later overturned in coram nobis proceedings in the 1980s.

The Supreme Court had ruled against the administration once more, upholding the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions and derailing the military commissions.

Roberts also deserves recognition for producing the majority opinion in King, once again upholding Obamacare.

The wicketkeeper-batsman had been twice warned by the bowler for straying out of his crease before a further transgression saw the bails removed, the spinner's appeal only upheld by umpire Michael Gough once he had consulted Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews.

Once the Supreme Court upheld the Michigan program, the Texas regents decided to free the university, at least to a modest degree, from the randomness of the 10 percent plan by adopting the Michigan model for a small portion of the class.

But the alleged injury to offenders under those laws is minor indeed compared with limitations on liberty and privacy imposed by the involuntary, limitless incarceration under the sexual predator acts that the court upheld once again.