Notwithstanding his private opinions and actions, Grant understood that he still had publicly to uphold official government policy, which permitted those loyal to the Union to trade in cotton.
But his rationale -- that he was personally opposed to abortion but publicly required to uphold Roe v. Wade -- now looks like ancient sophistry: having claimed that there was no public consensus opposing abortion, he worked to see that none developed.
I do not agree with many of Douthat's conclusions, but I admire his desire to publicly and strongly uphold and defend his Catholic convictions through the storied pages of the New York Times.
It said that the existing principle that DNA data must be publicly released has been "fully upheld in our agreement with Celera, which has agreed to make the entire sequence available free of charge".
On the eve of the ruling, a few respected court watchers went so far as to predict publicly that the law would be upheld.
In contrast, in 1975, the California Supreme Court upheld the right of journalists to publicly out Oliver Sipple as a gay man after he stopped an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford.
One veteran compliance official, who requested anonymity because he was not permitted to speak publicly about Miami's case, said that if the N.C.A.A. upheld the findings in the Yahoo report, it would be the most significant case he had seen.
The handful of companies who have taken the lead in publicly committing to and upholding migrant workers' rights stand in good stead as countries introduce mandatory human rights reporting and assign projects to companies based on their human rights performance.
Nevertheless, the FCC has continuously upheld the idea that it was under attack and has never publicly walked it back.
The court upheld the government's refusal to disclose F.B.I. arrest records compiled from publicly available but hard-to-find information.
