Sentence examples for uphold as from inspiring English sources

That's a responsibility I intend to uphold as long as I am in this office.

The new, improved Murray — toughened by Lendl's mentoring — now has a reputation to uphold, as well as his golden track record that was celebrated with the presentation of a cake wheeled onto the court during his postmatch interview.

But Berwick's report is the saving grace, and his reinforcing of the patient-focused mission hospitals must uphold, as well as the necessary initiatives and protocols that must exist for staff, is now being read around the world.

He had a reputation to uphold as an aggressive commander.

Mr Abe has said that he will uphold "as a whole" the Murayama statement.

Gleefully threatening to defy the rule of law — the law he vowed to uphold as governor — is inexcusable.

Mr. Genachowski has concluded that the pending combination of NBC and Comcast meets the so-called public interest standards that the F.C.C. is charged with upholding, as long as the conditions are imposed, the officials said.

The Bulgarians were sentenced to death on charges of deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children with the AIDS virus in 1999, and their sentences were upheld as recently as last month.

Disclosure requirements were upheld (as anticorruption measures).

Voter ID laws have been both upheld as fair and struck down as discriminatory.

Similarly, when Kim Il-sung died in 1994, he was upheld as "eternal president".