Sentence examples for upheld under from inspiring English sources

How is the Convention being upheld under the current situation in Afghanistan?

Ms. Salarno Ashford said the increase in parole grants upheld under Governor Brown makes it all the more important for victims to attend hearings.

Civil rights advocates said today that they were not hopeful that the guidelines, which were several years in the making, would be upheld under Mr. Reynolds.

Speaking as the latest court hearing in the battle over the travellers' site near Basildon, Essex, began in central London on Monday afternoon, he seized on the case to highlight his determination to see planning law enforced and the British rule of law upheld under the Conservative-led coalition.

He says: "It's actually questionable whether Lodsys's patents would survive a well-funded effort to have them declared invalid," adding: "Even if they could be upheld under the system as it stands, there's no way that those patents represent a fair deal between society and" Lodsys, which bought them from the inventor.

Any trade restrictions imposed by a WTO member on another WTO member in compliance with a new global treaty on climate change would surely be upheld under WTO rules if both members had agreed to that treaty.

Of those, the umpire's original call has been upheld just under sixty-four per cent of the time.

Previously he had dissented when the Supreme Court upheld convictions under the Espionage Act of 1917 for publishing criticisms of the U.S. entry into World War I. On most important issues Brandeis was aligned, often in the minority, with his colleague Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The focus of the CLB was on freedom of speech, primarily anti-war speech, and on supporting conscientious objectors who did not want to serve in World War I. Three United States Supreme Court decisions in 1919 each upheld convictions under laws against certain kinds of anti-war speech.

Background An individual's right to self-determination in treatment decisions is a central principle of modern medical ethics and law, and is upheld except under conditions of mental incapacity.

But in a June 1, 2010, decision the Bermuda court upheld this structure under Bermuda law.