Sentence examples for rather than upholding from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

"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".

Rather than upholding the segregated notion of a country divided by mutually exclusive groups, Mexican-Americans might use their experience to imagine an America in which racial, ethnic and cultural groups collide to create new ways of being American.

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

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.

"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.

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".