The phrase "uphold a requirement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the enforcement or maintenance of a specific standard or obligation.
Example: "The organization must uphold a requirement for all employees to complete safety training annually."
Alternatives: "maintain a requirement" or "enforce a requirement."
The board also upheld a requirement that students take 22 credits.
In another 5 4 ruling, issued in June, the Supreme Court upheld a requirement at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law that registered student organizations had to accept any student as a member or potential leader.
On Monday, the court's ruling in an Arizona immigration case delivered a partial victory to the Obama administration but also deeply disappointed some Latinos by upholding a requirement that police officers check the immigration status of anyone they stop if they suspect that the person is in the country illegally.
Backing the teachers' union in the case, Verrilli pressed the court's conservative members to justify their apparent move toward overturning a unanimous 1977 supreme court decision, Abood v Detroit Board of Education, that upheld a requirement that public school teachers pay union fees, even when they opt out of joining the union.
He also joined the majority in a 2014 decision upholding a requirement that asked states to reduce their power plant emissions to protect air quality in downwind states.
And Young wrote one opinion upholding a requirement mandating photo ID at the polls, despite another judge's contention that "history will judge us harshly" for the decision.
If that seems unlikely, we could start with a bilateral labor migration agreement with a country like Mexico, making membership in a transnational workers' organization and a commitment to uphold workplace laws a requirement for Mexicans to obtain work here.
The court upheld a core requirement known as the "individual mandate" that Americans buy insurance or pay a fine.
In Casey, the Supreme Court upheld some restrictions in Pennsylvania but overturned a requirement that married women notify their husbands.
Egalitarianism might be upheld as a moral requirement, a component of what we fundamentally owe one another, or as morally optional, a desirable ideal that we might permissibly decline to pursue.
