Mr. Harper, for example, stood by a decision a month ago to require Mexicans to apply for visas but said that the problems were Canada's, not Mexico's.
A State Department spokesman, P. J. Crowley, said the United States remained concerned about Syria's nuclear activity but stood by a decision to restore the diplomatic mission in Syria.
The Chargers met with Marty Schottenheimer last week and some reports said the interview went so well that Schottenheimer had told his assistants to stand by because a decision could be imminent.
The telescope is operated and managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center in nearby Greenbelt, Md. Just days before, in a letter on Monday to Ms. Mikulski, Mr. O'Keefe said he would stand by his decision because a Hubble mission posed extra risks to astronauts.
In 2006, the United States Supreme Court let stand a decision by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that permitted Stanley Shepp to tell his 14-year-old daughter about polygamy.
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court let stand a decision by a federal appeals court, which held that school authorities in Montgomery County, Md., violated the Constitution when they tried to prevent a white student from transferring to a magnet school from his neighborhood elementary school, which is predominantly black.
The court let stand a decision by an appeals court in Atlanta that had said it lacked jurisdiction to rule on the merits of the case -- whether the Environmental Protection Agency had properly applied the review -- because the means of review, through Administrative Compliance Orders, was unconstitutional and a violation of due process.
Instead, the justices — without comment or dissents — let stand a decision by Ohio's Republican-controlled Legislature to eliminate the so-called golden week, which had permitted voters to register and cast a ballot in one trip to the county's election center.
Be decisive and firm, and stand by your decision.
They deserve a separate in-depth analysis and we stand by this decision.
