Sentence examples for as upholding from inspiring English sources

Mr. Green says he sees the tie-down team as upholding the law.

In ancient times tyrants tended to be popular, because the people saw them as upholding their interests.

Yet when Steve is disastrously exposed, it is the media - his destroyer and nemesis - that are seen as upholding a retributive justice.

And this was at a time when, perhaps, it would rather not be seen as upholding the federal government's right to flout state laws.

Christians envisage God as upholding the natural order from beyond the universe, while physicists think of their laws as inhabiting an abstract transcendent realm of perfect mathematical relationships.

Cultural conservatives, Horwitz said, see Putin "as upholding tradition and traditional social arrangements in areas of gender, sexuality, the bounds of speech, and so on".

He said, "I believe that this tactic is lifesaving," and, referring to Terry v. Ohio, he added, "It is also lawful and constitutional as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968".

As written and as upheld by the Supreme Court, Mr. Somvichian said, the zero-tolerance law could punish a public housing tenant for something a relative does far from the tenant's residence.

Hence, the traditional combination of marriage, sex, and family, as upheld by long-standing Chinese cultural expectations, has become less influential, particularly in regard to serving as a foundation of dating and partner selection.

Whether another's actions are "free, voluntary and informed" is the operating definition, as upheld in R. v Kennedy (No. 2) where the defendant was acquitted.

"Why can't you just be sincere?" "Oh, let's not take such a genial view of social circumstances so as to uphold sincerity as a primary value," Jacob said, with affected distraction, stirring his remaining ice with his straw.