Sentence examples for try to uphold a from inspiring English sources

Romania have competed at every World Cup since its inception in 1987, winning five matches, largely by keeping it tight in the front five and capitalising on errors – Florin Vlaicu is an excellent place‑kicker – while they themselves try to uphold a high standard of discipline.

Many progressive pro-life faith leaders try to uphold a "consistent ethic of life" that protects and promotes the preciousness and sacredness of life in public life and policy.

The following steps are pointers regarding social behaviour for classy ladies who try to uphold a standard.

But here's where Maddow and the other worriers are wrong: litigators trying to uphold a woman's right to an abortion are not running scared.

It is a small democracy trying to uphold a set of liberal values against autocrats and religious fanatics sworn to its destruction.

For a long time, the left wing has tried to uphold a parallel faith in the right to freedom of speech and the right to privacy – a contradiction that is now under more strain than ever.

You decide. 1 Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot has long tried to uphold a "sartorial" dress code (to keep the oligarch wives and Wags in check), with helpful advice about dangling bra straps and the importance of wearing knickers.

Over the past nine years, eight years as attorney general and one as governor, I've tried to uphold a vision of progressive politics that would rebuild New York and create opportunity for all.

The Rt Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester, said the Church was "trying to uphold a traditional of teachings and understandings about marriage" at a time when "many marriages are in difficulty".

While this has been the state's policy since 1872, the law recently came into question in the case of Edwards II v. Arthur Andersen LLP, in which the accounting firm tried to uphold a noncompete contract Edwards signed in 1997.

Still, despite these errors, Miller and the Times were valiant in trying to uphold an important principle, which is that journalists sometimes require anonymous sources to dig up information, and if we cannot pledge that we will protect their anonymity we will deprive readers of vital information.