Sentence examples for upheld the position from inspiring English sources

He indeed addressed the case specifically, praising the ruling, which upheld the position of the I.R.S. that the partnership was improper; he did not decline to comment.

The family appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and, in a unanimous decision issued on 24 April, the court upheld the position that the Fourth Amendment did not apply and that Hernandez's claim to the Fifth Amendment – the right not to have his life arbitrarily taken by the state without adequate due process of law – was not "clearly established".

Mr Abe said that his cabinet upheld the position outlined by previous administrations on Japan's war-time past.

Last year the law suffered its first substantial setback when state courts upheld the positions of Glastonbury, Newtown and Bridgewater against developers.

Powers deplored the "emotionalism" of the counter-award ceremony & upheld the K.A.B. position.

Menzies, an ardent royalist, upheld the British position in the Suez Crisis of 1956.

In general, the ʿulamāʾ (religious scholars) jealously upheld the sovereign position of the Sharīʿah against the political authority.

The document was based on the Augsburg Confession, and it upheld the Lutheran position on justification and the Calvinist interpretation of the Eucharist.

Gomarist, also called Contra-remonstrant, or Counter-remonstrant, follower of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus (1563 1641), who upheld the theological position known as supralapsarianism, which claimed that God is not the author of sin yet accepted the Fall of Man as an active decree of God.

upheld the Aristotelian position that space, time, matter and motion are all continuous (see Sambursky [1963], [1971]; White [1992]).

The federal appeals court in New York upheld the commission's position, reinstating an age discrimination suit that a group of couriers had filed against Federal Express.