Sentence examples for cases to uphold from inspiring English sources

To execute Mr. Davis without fully considering that evidence would be "unconscionable and unconstitutional," wrote Judge Barkett, who has voted in more than 200 other cases to uphold the death penalty.

And Roche is fighting several court cases to uphold its patent on the anticancer drug Tarceva, or erlotinib, that Indian drug makers argue does not meet the effectiveness standard.

The Home Secretary's role is quasi-judicial – she's the last line of defence in certain cases, to uphold British fair play.

But we will do so taking care in each case to uphold the property rights of local communities and farmers.

And it almost always – in more than 99% of cases – fails to uphold complaints against the secret services or local authorities.

But Millis was initially convicted, and one of the three 9th Circuit Judges who heard the case voted to uphold his conviction.

In both cases, he acted to uphold the prerogatives of the Supreme Court — against the president and Congress in the Guantánamo case, and against the international court in the Medellín decision.

And as Dahlia Lithwick points out, the conservative justices could earn themselves some wiggle room for other cases by voting to uphold the health reform act now.

Although lawyers were in some instances at the forefront of their countries' independence movements (as were Mohandas Gandhi in India and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore), in other cases they worked to uphold colonial rule.

American officials, who had threatened Brazil with trade sanctions, said two months ago that this case was important to uphold the general principle of protecting intellectual property rights and that Brazil was using a provision in its law to pressure patent owners to make products there.

Her attorneys released a statement saying they're not at liberty to discuss the case "in order to uphold the privacy that Prince and the Nelson family have always maintained".