Put our values to the test, and uphold them firmly.
"Let the whole nation come out to firmly uphold the patriotic army-based policy," the agency said.
"As before, we firmly uphold the thesis that questions about Syria's future must be decided by the Syrians themselves," Russia's Foreign Ministry said, "without interference from outside or the imposition of prepared recipes for development".
In recent weeks, Xi has sent signals to the Communist Party in study sessions with cadres to firmly uphold China's existing model and brace for "political risks," said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSISS).
Post-war Japan never used military force abroad, yet its inability to accept history and reconcile with its key neighbours show that Japan does not live up to the universally shared norms it claims to firmly uphold.
China took effective measures in response to both provocations to firmly uphold territorial rights and interests.
Piltdown also seemed to support the theory, then firmly upheld by English palaeontologists, that growing brainpower had driven human evolution.
When it comes to the priesthood, Francis firmly upholds church doctrine: "On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no… That door is closed".
Sixtus IV's relations were strained with France, whose king Louis XI firmly upheld the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), which had established the liberties of the French Church.
Leaving Mike Sirotka with the Toronto Blue Jays and David Wells with the Chicago White Sox, Commissioner Bud Selig yesterday firmly upheld the longtime policy at the core of trades: buyer beware.
And he firmly upholds Turkey's cherished concept of the unitary state, which means he will oppose the cause of Kurdish separatism, though Kurdish civil rights are another matter.
