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Seaton appealed, but the original verdict was upheld on the grounds that the use of the word "dirtiest" could not count as defamation as it was no more than "rhetorical hyperbole".

Three months later, when the House of Representatives convened hearings into the election, whose result Harrison contested, Davis's victory was upheld on the ground that any "man of ordinary courage" could have made his way to the polls.

The agency's rule on cotton dust was upheld on the ground that a serious risk had been shown and that the law specifically ruled out weighing the costs of protecting workers from the effects of cotton dust.

The main arguments put forward in favour of abortion care were on grounds of public health upheld in legal and professional codes.

(The U.S. Supreme Court, by the way, heard a case in 1990 challenging the mandatory age 70 retirement law from Missouri on grounds of age discrimination, but the Supremes upheld the practice on a 7-2 vote).

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld on free speech grounds a ruling that prevents the police from enforcing a section of the state immigration law that prohibits people from blocking traffic when seeking or offering day labor services.

A federal appeals court upheld on free speech grounds a ruling that prevents the police from enforcing a section of the state immigration law that prohibits people from blocking traffic when seeking or offering day labor services.

The ideal of a society in which people do not suffer disadvantage from discrimination on grounds of supposed race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation is widely upheld as desirable in itself.

People should knowingly want to uphold and maintain society's just institutions not just because they benefit from them, but on grounds of their sense of justice.

Both were dismissed on grounds of disloyalty.

Ms. Nelson sued on grounds of sex discrimination.