Sentence examples for upheld the application from inspiring English sources

The World Trade Organization adopted a ruling that upheld the application of a United States trade law allowing unilateral imposition of retaliatory trade sanctions.

He pointed out that National Stolen Property Act of 1948 applies only to property valued above $5,000 and that federal courts had not yet upheld the application of Archaeological Resources Protection Act to foreign antiquities.

A 1985 amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, intended to cushion the impact of a Supreme Court decision that upheld the application of federal wages and hours standards to the states, permitted public employers to use comp time instead of cash overtime if their employees agreed.

That action alarmed a number of civil rights groups because Supreme Court decisions in the 1960's had upheld the application of federal anti-discrimination laws to local hotels, restaurants and other businesses on the theory that the aggregate effect of racial discrimination had a substantial impact on interstate commerce.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the application for a "stay of the execution" and a hearing has been scheduled for 7 and 8 July.

Rehnquist once wrote a majority opinion that upheld the application of the Family and Medical Leave Act to the states, which disappointed conservatives and shocked women's rights groups who never counted on him as an ally.

Hilliard's decision upholds the application by the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, for a public interest immunity certificate and prevents the release of details deemed too sensitive to be heard in open court.

In Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), in upholding the application of antipolygamy laws to Mormons, Waite distinguished between the freedom to hold a religious belief and the freedom to engage in religious practices (polygamy) that had been outlawed by legislative act.

The California Supreme Court has upheld the retroactive application, which currently covers 60,000 offenders, the state said.

In an interim decision last month upholding the PII application, he said the government had received information from a local newspaper alleging that terrorists were seeking information about British workers in Algeria with a view to kidnapping them.

The city denied the application, and courts upheld the ruling.