Sentence examples for uphold by from inspiring English sources

We shouldn't abandon the values we claim to uphold by closing the doors to desperate refugees, who, after all, are fleeing the kind of places where last Friday in Paris is an ordinary night.

Depending on their chosen place in the artistic spectrum, from fashionable to conservative, detractors sometimes uphold by comparison Jenny Saville or Euan Uglow (among British examples) -- anyone, clearly, instead of Mr. Freud.

The ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court.

It was upheld by the Supreme Court.

And they are not upheld by anyone.

Hellin's law is pretty well upheld by actual statistics.

The judge's decision was upheld by an appeals court.

The ruling would have been upheld — by a simple majority.

(The law was later upheld by the Supreme Court).

And they're generally always upheld by courts.

The call was upheld by a video review.