Sentence examples for upheld against from inspiring English sources

"upheld against" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to support or defend something against opposition or resistance. Example: The lawyer successfully upheld the defendant's innocence against the prosecution's strong evidence.

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This calibration was upheld against correlation with well-logs for other wells.

A fine of about 500 million euros was upheld against his financial empire.

This compares with about a third of all complaints being upheld against government departments in general.

It remains a fact that no adjudications were upheld against the Daily Mail or Mail Online in 2013.

As many as 800 complaints of racism have been upheld against officers since 2010, but only 20 have been sacked.

231, 78 L.Ed. 413, the Court upheld against a Contract Clause attack a mortgage moratorium law that Minnesota had enacted to provide relief for homeowners threatened with foreclosure.

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Many of us have been working consistently together to secure the liberal and democratic values we want our shared society to promote and uphold, against erosion from every direction and extremism from every source.

Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honour might uphold, Against the stormy gusts of winter's day And barren rage of death's eternal cold?

He issued a fatwa against smoking and upheld science against superstition.

The data protection agency rejected the complaint against the newspaper, but upheld it against Google.

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

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