Sentence examples for uphold a challenge from inspiring English sources

And it declined to uphold a challenge to gay marriage in California.

The ruling, by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan, was the first to uphold a challenge to the surveillance sections of the act, which was adopted in October 2001 to expand the powers of the federal government in national security investigations.

In identical language sent to all the counties, Ms. Harris cited various Florida election-law precedents to argue that she could apply the same standards used in deciding whether to uphold a challenged election in deciding whether to accept late returns or recounts.

In the 2009 case of Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the court upheld a challenge to an application of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

In July, a United Nations court of arbitration upheld a challenge by the Philippines that China could not claim historic rights over the islands.

In one of its first decisions, the court upheld a challenge to the death penalty, arguably in the liberal tradition of the privy council.

The ruling upheld a challenge by the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known for occasionally smashing up bars that it views as affronts to Islam and forcibly closing Christian churches and the mosques of Muslim minorities.

The nine-judge panel led by Lord Philips of Worth Matravers, the senior law lord, upheld a challenge [PDF] on behalf of three men on control orders who cannot be named.

It is arguably the least scientifically credible field of forensics still used, and yet to this day, not a single court in the United States has upheld a challenge to keep it out of evidence.

On Thursday, the court upheld a challenge by Catalonia's Socialist party – which opposes secession from Spain – ruling that allowing the Catalan parliament to meet on Monday and potentially declare independence would violate the rights of the party's MPs.

Beyond Indiana, the Supreme Court in Louisiana heard an appeal this month by a group of parents who are currently using vouchers and the Black Alliance for Educational Options, an advocacy group, after a lower court upheld a challenge to the state's voucher program.