Sentence examples for uphold a system from inspiring English sources

Lee dramatized all that Gladwell critically unfolds: the strategic use of racial and gender bias to uphold a system of white supremacy predicated on hiding class differences.

However, it is also a means of social construction: those who hold power (and those who are able to struggle to gain more opportunity for their children) value and uphold a system that maintains existing social status and opportunity.

His desire to uphold a system that would maintain her second class citizenry, was less important to them than this system upholding their capacity to provide for their family; land, food, money for fuel superceded racial equality.

Mr Meles accuses the emperor of upholding a system which allowed the feudal class to lead a life of luxury at the expense of the "toiling masses", while he amassed a huge personal fortune and deposited it in foreign banks.

The national state itself is legitimate for Green to the extent that it upholds a system of rights and obligations that is most likely to foster individual self-realisation.

By default, all White people are on the spectrum of complicity in upholding a system of White supremacy, but we only give the negative label of "White supremacists" to the really hateful people at the far end.

Rolando Cordera, director of the political magazine Nexos, speculated that people intentionally used their ballots to uphold a multiparty system and limit the powers of the president by electing an opposition Congress.

"I saw how good people subvert their own consciences to uphold a vile, disgusting system," he says.

The 11 stories in the book do the same in that it's keeping these traditions alive, and one question facing Aboriginal people is how to uphold an ancient spiritual system while living a modern lifestyle.

"Grunge" and plain old "alternative" were embarrassing, even dangerous; in as far as their music comprised part of a larger movement, described and upheld an ideal, a system of belief and disbelief, much was deferred to punk.

In 2002, in a 5-to-4 ruling, the court upheld a school voucher system in Cleveland that parents used almost exclusively to pay for religious schools.