Sentence examples for refused to uphold from inspiring English sources

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Fencing officials tried to console Ms. Shin, who was sobbing, but they refused to uphold her appeal.

The national armed forces became one of the cornerstones of the new centralized state; however, the army refused to uphold the policies of the president.

First, the federal Supreme Court refused to uphold (or reject) the decision of the Florida Supreme Court to extend the deadline for hand recounts, and sent the case back for the court to explain its reasons.

Ilford North's MP, Wes Streeting, said the public would conclude he was "unfit to hold the office of prime minister" if he refused to uphold the Nato of principle of mutual defence.

In a recent interview with me, Sally Yates, the former acting Attorney General whom Trump fired because she refused to uphold the original travel ban in court, said that Trump's intent was important to her decision.

Ruling in the high court in February, Eady – who attracted widespread criticism from the press for his decision to award damages to Max Mosley against the News of the World last year – refused to uphold the injunction.

In June the Supreme Court refused to uphold California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and it struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which barred the federal government from recognising same-sex marriages.

A long-running campaign in India to end the unconscionable criminalising of same-sex relations between two consenting adults received a major blow today as the supreme court refused to uphold the Delhi high court's 2009 decision striking down section 377 of the Indian penal code.

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