Sentence examples for upheld a life from inspiring English sources
But in 1991, the court upheld a life sentence for a first-time offender who was caught with a pound and a half of cocaine.
Ruling on Texas' "three strikes" law in 1980, the court upheld a life sentence for a man who refused to return $120.75 he'd been paid to repair an air-conditioner.
BEIJING --Bo Xilaststandt stand fizzled out without much fanfare Friday morning when a Chinese court turned down his appeal and upheld a life sentence for the once powerful Communist Party official, convicted last month of embezzlement, bribery and abuse of power.
A Cambodian Supreme Court chamber on Wednesday upheld a life sentence for two top cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge found guilty of crimes against humanity, a decision a U.N. envoy said sent a message to leaders in North Korea and elsewhere.
In a separate report on its website, Xinhua said the court upheld a term of life in prison for a pregnant woman also convicted for taking part in the attack.
This is a single-minded, relentlessly targeted song, preoccupied with stripping bare the illusions that once upheld an individual's life (and a milieu's lifestyle).
He demonstrates that lynching was not a hysterical spasm of violence committed by a few angry troublemakers but a social institution — a ritualized spectacle that was central to white Southerners' understanding of themselves and their quest to uphold a way of life they saw as threatened.
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.
Though Mr Romney says that, as president, he would support abortion in cases of rape or incest, his party's platform at the Republican National Convention, to be held in Tampa from August 27th-30th, will uphold a strict pro-life policy countenancing no such exceptions.Even before this latest skirmish in the culture wars, Mr Romney lagged behind Barack Obama by several points among women voters.
A French court upheld the life sentence of an Algerian convicted of involvement in a deadly wave of bombings that shook Paris in 1995.
But, I'm discussing a different phenomenon in which people feel compelled to perpetually lie, subvert, hide and pretend due to upholding a fairy-tale of a life just so others will not condemn, mock, ridicule, or exploit them for their fallibility.
