Sentence examples for upheld for a from inspiring English sources

But even if they lost some funds, that would be just like the provisions of the national air quality standards, which have been upheld for a long time.

Although the Union's foreign minister, Catherine Ashton, has rightly made supporting the Arab Spring a top priority, another part of the E.U. machine has introduced the ban that, if upheld for a full year, could block as much as 10 percent of Egypt's agricultural exports at a time when the country's economy is reeling from a plunge in tourism and investment.

All of them advanced and upheld (for a time, at least) the causes of the revolutionary government – which in 1946 would crystallise into the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or Institutional Revolutionary Party, an oxymoron that explains far too many things about Mexico.

But in December that year the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversed the ruling, and it was upheld for a second time by the Court of Appeal in 2009.

The plasma (Je nanorod of 4.74 mA/cm2 is upheld for a period of 6,445 s and shows high life-time stability in comparison with that of the N2-UNCD films as well as bare Si.

And, as far as Adi goes, hopefully his trauma will help to fuel a reawakening in himself and for Indonesia at large, given the seeming indifference or ignorance that's been upheld for a mass murder, which occurred in very recent history.

Channel 4 had a further complaint upheld for an edition of the 11 O'Clock Show, featuring a sketch satirising a young girl given a mobile phone to combat bullies.

A hypothesis that an optimum ratio between the speed of the bobbin and the speed of the rotor can be found to optimise the efficiency of the separation for a given force field is upheld for an intermediate polarity phase system.

On the federal level, we must continue to demand that a state's rights be upheld, for only a state's citizenry can truly understand and resolve the environmental, social and economic problems in its own backyard.

Has it escaped your notice that Knox was convicted of defamation, a criminal charge, in Italy — a conviction that was upheld — for falsely accusing an innocent man of murdering Meredith Kercher?

This "activity-based" rather than "status-based" determination has been upheld for more than a century, McKeown points out.