Sentence examples for upheld efforts to from inspiring English sources
Courts have repeatedly upheld efforts to apply the Clean Air Act to greenhouse gases, but the Environmental Protection Agency has been too slow and timid in using the law to control carbon pollution.
That tradition was upheld when efforts to force cable companies to sell their channels individually (instead of in fixed tiers) died in Congress in 2004.
UN Women's vision is a world in which societies are free of gender-based discrimination, where women and men have equal opportunities, where women and girls are empowered to lead the change that they want to see, and where women's rights are upheld in all efforts to further development, human rights, peace and security.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have urged the supreme court to uphold Barack Obama's efforts to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the US.
Because so many countries have managed their currency rates for so long, it is unclear that the W.T.O. would uphold any American efforts to make the manipulation of a currency a justification for action.
[C3.] Judge Rejects Challenge in Tax Case A federal judge effectively upheld the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to obtain the names of two clients of KPMG who bought a tax shelter that the agency has said is abusive.
I proudly accept this challenge, and, if confirmed, will humbly dedicate my best efforts to uphold your high standards.
State-run Xinhua news agency said Wang "highly appreciates Cambodia's efforts to uphold justice over the South China Sea issue".
"We support the Afghan Central Bank's efforts to uphold international standards on transparency and its decisive action in response to reports of fraud at the Kabul Bank".
Encouraging businesses will require freer flows of labour and fewer customs barriers, as well as better efforts to uphold the rule of law.
The hostility of Sparta's allies and the opposition of the Athenian general Alcibiades, however, foiled Nicias' efforts to uphold the peace.
