Sentence examples for able to uphold from inspiring English sources

Another law lord, Baroness Hale, said: "I confess that I would have liked to be able to uphold the decision.

Lady Hale I confess I would have liked to be able to uphold the decision... of the divisional court.

While the union gave concessions to Ford on wages and pensions, it said it was still able to uphold its major negotiating principles.

For months, the Portnoys fought back, winning a series of legal victories that suggested they might be able to uphold the status quo.

The writer, by archeological means, might be able to uphold their claim that they had used the tract for a long time.

So, the very least the EU has to prove in the next weeks is that it is able to uphold its core values in every member state.

Therefore the younger and more vulnerable the child, the less able clinicians are to uphold the ethical standards behind the paradigms of benefiting the patient and doing no harm [ 13].

Randazzo was able to continue.

"His behavior was well below the standards we expect of senior market professionals who we should be able to rely on to uphold the system rather than seek to get round it".

This is partly because it cannot put its own house in order in respect of the federal government's debt, and partly because it seems less able than it was to uphold and enhance the international open-market system.

This creates a real issue due to the fact that some "parties to the transaction are no longer able to support the lawyers' fees necessary to uphold the arrangement".