Sentence examples for he upheld from inspiring English sources

Despite this, he upheld the government's order.

He upheld his people in resisting the Visigoths.

But he upheld the decision of the state court.

But in a 2009 case, he upheld another EPA regulation that did exactly the same thing.

He upheld the threefold authority of the Anglican tradition Bible, church, and reason.

In his phrasing and his bearing, he upheld a distinctly masculine ideal of deceptive nonchalance.

…few dissents, he upheld, in Ogden v. Saunders (1827), state power to alleviate economic distress.

*In Sweet Home, he upheld the government's power to restrict habitat destruction in order to protect endangered species.

He upheld the Griqua claims but then annexed the relevant regions as the crown dependency of Griqualand West in 1871.

As a circuit-court judge, he upheld a Pennsylvanian law that required women seeking abortions to notify their husbands.

In his best-known judgment, he upheld conversion to Hinduism and ruled that such converts were not outcasts.