Sentence examples for be upheld as from inspiring English sources

Under that test, a delegation of legislative authority will be upheld as long as Congress "shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle" to which the agency "is directed to conform".

Both the federal District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, said the law's distinction between citizens and noncitizens should be upheld as long as it was "rational".

If it's about the law, then the U.S. Constitution must be upheld as well, including the 4th and 14th Amendments which guarantee freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, and equal protection under the law.

The decision also said that bans on concealed weapons would be upheld as well as those on undefined "dangerous and unusual weapons" (apparently, no nukes, or even bazookas, will be permitted in the family garage and, the Bush administration hopes, no machine guns either).

But Clinton can't be upheld as progressive merely because she's a woman.

Mr. Perkins attended the Republican National Convention last year as a delegate and wrote the party's marriage plank, which states that "the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard".

The Bulgarians were sentenced to death on charges of deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children with the AIDS virus in 1999, and their sentences were upheld as recently as last month.

Berlin admitted that liberty, for instance, had historically been upheld as an ideal only by a small minority of human beings; yet he still held it to be a genuine value for all human beings, everywhere, because of the way that human beings are constituted, and, so far as we know, will continue to be constituted.

Disclosure requirements were upheld (as anticorruption measures).

The U.S. red line was upheld — as it must be in Syria today.

Similarly, when Kim Il-sung died in 1994, he was upheld as "eternal president".