When you have to make a public vow, it's a way to commit to uphold principles".
In the administration's brief, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement urged the justices to uphold "principles of judicial restraint" by rejecting the facial challenge.
Still, the terms of the appeal bond should not be struck down to ameliorate states' fiscal crises, but rather to uphold principles of due process.
Having agreed that decommissioning would occur as part of the resolution of Northern Ireland's sectarian conflict, the IRA's political representatives swore to uphold principles of nonviolence and were included in the multiparty talks beginning in September 1997.
It is important to uphold principles, such as human dignity, but once you start endorsing candidates right and left and addressing questions like how many tanks we should have, you cross that line.
Islam Online says it wants to present a positive view of the faith to non-Muslims, to strengthen unity in the Muslim world and to uphold principles of justice, freedom and human rights.
He wrote later, "A deep feeling of gratitude and admiration arose in my heart for all the courageous men, scholars and workers, great or humble, who had thrown themselves valiantly into the struggle for the triumph of justice and truth, to uphold principles which are the legacy of humanity".
He gave the jury a detailed lesson in Bronx drug operations, reciting with stony dispassion the beatings, slashings and shootings he committed to enforce what he called "the drug law," and to uphold principles he declares in a tattoo on his upper right arm that means "Money.
The constitution enshrines the directorate's duty to uphold principles of secularism and national unity.
We of course shouldn't have to factor in partisanship when asking elected officials to uphold principles of democracy, just as the First Amendment shouldn't be defended based on which party does a better job at exercising our freedoms of speech, press and assembly, but principled commitment to democratic principles is not expected of our leaders.
