Sentence examples for rather than uphold from inspiring English sources

Tsitsi Mazikana, the students' gender representative, told the BBC that the ban was enacted to control students, rather than uphold high standards of morality.

"With this vote, a majority of Unesco's board has chosen to promote the image of President Obiang rather than uphold basic standards of human rights, financial integrity and good governance," said Lisa Misol, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

That could just be campaign blather, but conservatives fear he means it: that he really does want judges to favour the underdog rather than uphold the law dispassionately as their oath of office requires.

Amnesty International's Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan expressed his disappointment with the DUP's decision to block the vote telling Attitude magazine: "The misuse of the petition of concern to hold back rather than uphold the rights of a minority group, will mean that the motion is formally defeated.

It solved a problem for them, so rather than uphold the law, they just let them do whatever they liked".

We have criminalized loyal and hard-working Americans, putting them behind bars in order to appease xenophobic hysteria rather than uphold the promises of freedom and hope that are meant to characterize the American ethos.

The state is complicit in undermining "British values" rather than upholding them.

Instead, they are asking the British government to uphold the values it claims to support, rather than upholding authoritarian rule.

Liberals criticise Yamamoto for turning to the emperor for help rather than upholding democratic principles as an elected lawmaker.

"Rather than upholding and enforcing the law as they had sworn to do, these defendants made international gunrunning a family business," Loretta E. Lynch, the United States attorney for the Eastern District, said in a statement.

Australian Tamil Congress national spokesperson Sam Pari said "it is disappointing that rather than upholding human rights, Abbott chose instead to please the Sri Lankan president who failed to protect and promote international human rights law and international humanitarian law".