Sentence examples for upheld for centuries from inspiring English sources

The fallow-land portion of the sabbatical law, meanwhile, was upheld for centuries, but it, too, finally gained a loophole, called heter mechira.

We should not allow the Bush administration's catastrophic embrace of torture to become a justification for abandoning principles of due process that we have upheld for more than two centuries.

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

In Britain, judges and lawyers, who are known as barristers or solicitors, have upheld certain traditions for centuries, like the wearing of wigs and ceremonial robes in courtrooms, a practice that became fashionable under King Charles II in the late 17th century.

The acidic runoff will continue for centuries.

For centuries, the Church has consistently favored social notions that are "preferential" to the impoverished, and it has always upheld strict personal moral principles — its progressive wing notwithstanding.

As African Americans, who have battled for centuries against racial discrimination, we have always relied on our president and his administration to fight for and uphold our civil rights, because too many pastors across the country and throughout centuries wouldn't "move America forward".

We have for centuries.

For centuries, in fact.

Guns remain functional for centuries.

Scholars have debated it for centuries.