Sentence examples for upheld as from inspiring English sources

Disclosure requirements were upheld (as anticorruption measures).

Similarly, when Kim Il-sung died in 1994, he was upheld as "eternal president".

The important thing here is that Apple's patents were upheld as valid.

The U.S. red line was upheld — as it must be in Syria today.

But Clinton can't be upheld as progressive merely because she's a woman.

Voter ID laws have been both upheld as fair and struck down as discriminatory.

For his service to Rama, Hanuman is upheld as a model for all human devotion (bhakti).

Among the Chinese, the mother of Mencius has been for ages upheld as the model mother.

Fortitude and backbone were upheld as womanly virtues, rather than the pursuit of frivolities.

All the while the accomplishments of German composers, including Schumann, were upheld as evidence of German biological superiority.

In recent years, many police departments across the country have adopted tattoo restrictions, which the courts have upheld as reasonable.