Sentence examples for that they uphold from inspiring English sources

It is increasingly clear that they uphold straight privilege, as well.

But their imagery is so wonderfully inventive and their execution so suave that they uphold the Cederquist tradition.

It's obvious that the Senate Republican leaders are sending a message to voters that they uphold traditional family values in their support of Senator Rick Santorum in the face of his remarks comparing homosexuality to incest, polygamy, bigamy and adultery.

The Justice Department has defended the proposals, insisting that they uphold basic constitutional freedoms while providing important new tools to the government in dealing with the threat of further, even more deadly terrorist attacks.

The Education Department dispenses a large share of its billions of dollars to states and local districts on the condition that they uphold two pillars of national law — that students who are economically disadvantaged and students who are disabled get extra classroom enrichment.

Not only do Mr Erdogan and the AKP insist vehemently that they uphold the secular state; they are also supported by a six-year record of economic and political reform, more rights for minorities and women, and the start of membership talks with the European Union.

She loved her family and friends, and "had a deep need of their affection and a genuine respect for the ordered, decent civilisation that they upheld".

The right could look at some of the very same pictures and decide that they upheld the importance of adequate policing by citizens who had no time for sociology or sissified legal debate.

I told them that it was good that they upheld the store policies.

Also that year they upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, in Kennedy's opinion, even though the Court had rejected a nearly identical law just seven years earlier.

Why don't you expedite the appeal, to see whether you uphold the conviction, or you don't.' Now if they'd done that and they upheld the conviction, then the next stage, if he is seriously ill, which wouldn't have caused so much fuss, is you say OK, I'll transfer him as a convicted prisoner to serve his remaining days in Libya.