Sentence examples for upheld teaching from inspiring English sources

— In an evenly split vote, the State Board of Education on Thursday upheld teaching evolution as accepted mainstream science.

Farmers' wives complained that it portrayed small-town women as prim, self-righteous and out of fashion with modern times.At a time when the Scopes "monkey" trial, which upheld the teaching of evolution in schools, was still fresh in people's minds, some noted in the mid-western man's ape-like features a reference to the primitive missing link.

"I must do that in season and out of season," he continued, "even when truths that it is my duty to uphold and teach are unpopular, including especially the truth about marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife".

They are about ensuring that any religious institution — not just Catholic institutions — may uphold its teaching and still serve all people in need, regardless of faith.

It was therefore the duty of Justinian, as it was for later Byzantine emperors, to promote the good government of the church and to uphold orthodox teaching.

There has often been tension between the ideal of academic freedom and the mandate to uphold church teaching at Catholic colleges.

Patterson, the school's attorney, did not dispute the legality of Zmuda's marriage, but said his actions violated the contract requiring employees to uphold Catholic teaching.

He said he would do his best to uphold Catholic teaching that the "sanctity of marriage" between a man and a woman was the cornerstone of society.

Representatives of almost a dozen congregations are due to gather in Tunbridge Wells this week to discuss how they will uphold traditional teaching.

This concern for authority in the interpretation, upholding, and teaching of Epicurean orthodoxy feeds into Philodemus' concern for the healthy conduct of his school, for its life as a community of philosophers, both students and teachers, studying Epicurean and other texts while trying to lead the kind of philosophical life commended by the school.

Instead, they provided a lengthy audio statement in which Cordileone said the handbook and contract changes merely seek to clarify existing expectations that Catholic teachers uphold Catholic teaching.