Sentence examples for the upholders from inspiring English sources

And, most remarkably, the judiciary had come to be the upholders of human rights against government.

Prussia and Austria were now able to intervene as the upholders of the 1852 protocol.

In the film, the upholders of the amateur ideal are snobbish, anti-Semitic reactionaries.

Every purist (a word usually derogating the upholders of standards) stands foursquare against the split infinitive.

The upholders of law and order are a dour collection, the organised criminals a dull lot.

We Brits are supposed to be the upholders of all things Godlike.

Another great deity was Varuna, who was the upholder of the cosmic and moral laws.

"He is the upholder of a more moderate, more careful and, he says, more realistic right," it said.

The Taliban spokesman in New York reiterated the ruling group's position that Mr. bin Laden was a "guest and the upholder of the Afghan holy war".

Solipsistic in its suffering and narcissistic in its impulses, it promotes itself as the upholder of principles it does not keep, and a morality it does not practise.

But with the rest of Europe, apart from France, reluctant warriors, Britain remains America's partner as the upholder of world order.