Sentence examples for upheld actions from inspiring English sources

Last year, the court upheld actions against golden-share arrangements in France, Portugal and Belgium.

Morton's 19th-century biographer, William Dudley Foulke, points out that Morton took a great risk in bypassing a state appropriation: had a future Legislature not upheld his actions, he might have been held personally liable for the money he borrowed.

Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about a Delaware court decision that upheld the actions of Walt Disney's directors in the hiring and the firing of Michael S. Ovitz as president referred incorrectly in some copies to an outcome averted by the ruling.

Although the chief justice's Parents Involved opinion didn't take direct aim at the court's affirmative action precedents, it was unmistakably incompatible with the 2003 precedent that upheld affirmative action in admission to the University of Michigan's law school.

The opinion reverses a trial court ruling last summer that had upheld the action.

The Court's decision in the case has upheld affirmative action.

The issue dates from last summer, when the United States Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in a case involving admissions to the University of Michigan Law School.

But the courts repeatedly upheld affirmative action in the workplace, saying it helped overcome past discrimination against minorities.

The court struck down quotas but upheld affirmative action, allowing an applicant's race to factor into college-admissions policies.

In 2003, however, Rehnquist found himself in the minority in cases in which a majority of the court struck down state sodomy laws and upheld affirmative action policies.

The Supreme Court upheld the action, arguing that such language, broadcast at an hour when children might be listening, could cause them emotional harm.