Sentence examples for could only be upheld from inspiring English sources

In the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia the High Court invalidated state bans on inter-racial marriage and ruled that governmental distinctions based on race could only be upheld for compelling reasons.

"It could only be Morris".

How could Bopp challenge a law that had just been upheld?

To ignore the late-filed returns, the court said, was a "drastic measure" that could be upheld only if it was "both reasonable and necessary".

In 1954, he presented Brown v. Board of Education to his colleagues in the most fundamental terms: either they believed in the inherent inferiority of blacks or they did not, for segregation could be upheld only if they did.

The chief justice said, though, that the 1968 law, which replaced the Miranda warnings with a case-by-case test of whether a confession was voluntary, could be upheld only if the Supreme Court decided to overturn Miranda.

The court said that since the regulations imposed First Amendment constraints, they could be upheld only if they advanced "important governmental interests unrelated to the suppression of free speech" and did not "burden substantially more speech than necessary to further those interests".

Thus, both kinds of goal-oriented or instrumental teleological moral theories, (i.e., egoism and utilitarianism) could not be upheld.

JUSTICE O'CONNOR -- So in your view this case boils down to whether section 3501 is sufficient MR. WAXMAN -- Yes.... Section 3501 in our view cannot be reconciled with Miranda and therefore could be upheld by this court only if the court were to be prepared to overrule Miranda.

He maintained the so-called "mandate" to buy health insurance could be upheld as a tax.

The third hypothesis was that the relationship (pattern) of the binding parameters among the 12 kidneys could be upheld despite shorter imaging times.