Sentence examples for upheld a conservative from inspiring English sources

He consistently upheld a conservative position on slavery and secession.

A conservative court, and a conservative justice, upheld a law passed and treasured by liberals.

Let's take a hard look at what it would mean, not just to pass a law banning abortion and have it upheld by a conservative courts, but what it would take to enforce such a law.

So some ties upheld a liberal result and others a conservative one.

The vote overcame last-minute opposition from fiscal conservatives and upheld a funding deal lawmakers had sealed on 29 October over a bottle of wine.

The lower court agreed with the conservatives and upheld a preliminary injunction blocking the names.

This spring a majority of Americans surveyed called themselves pro-life and last year the Supreme Court, in an opinion by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia upheld a constitutional individual right to private gun ownership.

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, a liberal, has said that Justice David T. Prosser Jr., a conservative, tried to choke her during an argument in her office on June 13, the day before the court, in a 4-to-3 conservative-liberal split, upheld a law that eliminates most public employees' collective bargaining rights.

In Toronto, officials upheld a ban last month.

Her decision upheld a U.S. District Court opinion.

In AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion in the spring, the court's conservative majority upheld an arbitration clause in a cellphone contract that forced consumers to waive the right to take part in a class action.