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The phrase "a upholding of" is not correct; it should be "an upholding of" due to the use of the article "an" before a vowel sound.
You can use it when discussing the act of maintaining or supporting a principle, law, or standard.
Example: "The committee emphasized the importance of an upholding of ethical standards in all business practices."
Alternatives: "a maintenance of" or "a support of".
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If we are to attribute the suppression of female autonomy as a upholding of fundamentalist Christian values, let me inform or remind you that abortion is not mentioned in the Bible.
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Even so, Mr. Naidu's party, based in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, did not threaten to leave the national coalition, though it did note that its continued support is based on an upholding of India's secular traditions.
Yet it would be simplistic to think that such Athenian-influenced constitutions were necessarily a significant upholding of human rights.
Conservatives were cheered, however, by the court's upholding of a law requiring libraries that receive government money to use filters to screen out pornography on computers.
A sociologist, Jean Baubérot, claimed the upholding of France's religious "neutrality" had become an increasingly aggressive and repressive secularism affecting Islam.
Making lists of accidents and bad events that happen on Friday the 13th is a skewed way of upholding a preconceived notion of how the superstition should pan out.
The overall expenses of upholding a military of this size consumed three-quarters of the state's entire annual revenue.
The decisions follow a United States Supreme Court ruling upholding parts of a similar Arizona law.
On Saturday, the justice secretary, Liz Truss, issued a statement upholding the independence of the judiciary.
Mr. Babson cited a case upholding the firing of airline workers who held signs saying their airline was unsafe.
An attack on Syria would go beyond even Kosovo, which at least implicated an interest in upholding one of our most important security commitments, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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