The only plausible explanation is a preconceived endeavor to uphold the cause of the defendants and save them from their doom.
Indiana's new Republican governor, Oliver P. Morton, was a former Democrat who, like Douglas, had promised he would "denounce treason and uphold the cause of the Union".
Kate Monster, round-faced, with ping-pong-ball eyes and a lipless mouth like the slot in a cash machine, is there to uphold the cause of People of Fur.
Scripture is full of numerous injunctions from God to his people to "Defend the weak and the fatherless, and uphold the cause of the poor and needy" (Psalm 82 3); "Learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, and bring justice to the fatherless.
The biblical description of God as upholding the cause of the fatherless and the widow and befriending strangers, providing them with food and clothing (Deuteronomy 10 18), remained a factor in the structure of the community.
"In defiance of aggression, the unyielding Chinese people fought gallantly and finally won total victory against the Japanese militarist aggressors, thus preserving China's five-thousand-year-old civilization and upholding the cause of peace of mankind," President Xi Jinping told the crowd on Thursday.
Friends and sympathizers of Wilkes early in 1769 formed the Society for the Defence of the Bill of Rights to uphold his cause and pay his debts.
It's also been necessary to uphold this standard when madmen have killed for no political cause whatsoever, but politicians and journalists have been determined to claim otherwise.
Please uphold this policy.
Members of Congress and President Obama should uphold this commitment.
W.L. Gore's general processes uphold this signature experience.
