Sentence examples for upheld the first from inspiring English sources

In 2000 a federal judge upheld the First Amendment right of protesters to sleep on the sidewalks of New York, finding that such expressive conduct can be part of political protest.

In 1909 the Supreme Court upheld the first criminal conviction in a federal court of a company, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, for the bizarre offence of cutting prices.

During the early primaries, Howard Dean upheld the first Gulf War as being every bit as legitimate as the current one was unjustified, and he questioned Kerry's judgment as a potential Commander-in-Chief.

In a rare defeat for the Copyright Cartel, the supreme court has upheld the "first sale doctrine" – the principle that once you buy a book or CD, you can resell it – in a closely watched case.

But the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago last week upheld the first arbitration, and Zagel said Monday that should have settled the matter.

The decision came less than two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the first sale doctrine in the case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, about a student who was importing and selling textbooks that he had bought at a lower price overseas.

A three-judge federal appeals panel on Tuesday upheld the first-ever federal rule protecting people from acute exposure to emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant implicated in asthma attacks and other respiratory problems.

Former Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles upheld the second rejection in 2012, but agreed to look at it again after the application was amended.

The European Parliament promptly lodged an appeal with the European Court on the grounds that the agreement infringed privacy rights and lacked an adequate legal basis.In its ruling on May 30th, the court upheld the second of those challenges.

For abortion providers, this was a kind of doomsday scenario: A split would have upheld the fifth circuit court of appeals decision of June 2015 and forced half of Texas clinics to close.

The case was ultimately appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Croatia in 2004, which upheld the first-instance convictions of Orešković, Norac and Grandić, as well as the acquittals of Rožić and Čanić.