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To the irritation of KBR's critics, the Army has generally upheld the bills the company has submitted to the military, even when the Pentagon's own auditors have questioned the amounts.

The GOP's position on legalization has generally upheld a longstanding US prohibition of drugs, which is presented as an effort to fight crime and curtail the social costs of drug use.

Over the years the U.S. Supreme Court has generally upheld union practices that require public-sector employees to first pay dues and then opt out if they don't support a union's political activities.

In recent years, four Supreme Court justices have generally upheld it, while four have opposed it.

That would require legislation, because courts have generally upheld such arbitration clauses.

Police officials say that the courts have generally upheld restrictions on the speech of government employees when the speech is job related.

Such an effort could be challenged in court, but judges have generally upheld Congress's right to control executive branch records that are not in the White House.

While lower-court judges have generally upheld that principle, the reed to which they have clung -- a concurrence by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. in a Supreme Court case from 1972 known as Branzburg -- has been characterized as relatively thin in several recent decisions.

Transit systems throughout the country have run afoul of the First Amendment for selectively banning certain ads, but the courts have generally upheld policies that limit certain categories of speech.

On the question of ending violence (the first of the three big ones), it had generally upheld a unilateral ceasefire which it unwisely broke earlier this year because, it says, of Israel killing too many Palestinians; and it has stopped its vile habit of suicide-bombings.

Restrictive immigration laws passed since 1973 have generally upheld the conservative idea that, as the German philosopher Carl Schmitt put it, "a democracy demonstrates its political power by knowing how to refuse or keep at bay something foreign and unequal that threatens its homogeneity".