Sentence examples for uphold historical from inspiring English sources

He did not like the natural philosophy of dialectical materialism, especially when applied to physics, but he did uphold historical materialism the Marxist political philosophy as an example of scientific truth.

Filed Tuesday by four North Carolina House Republicans, House Bill 780 is also known as the "Uphold Historical Marriage Act".

As abbot, his only appearance in historical records is his upholding of the monasteries' right to some property, and his acceptance of a gift of property in the town.

The justices of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), who upheld racial segregation, could at least plead historical blinders.

For Justice Anthony Kennedy in particular, the court's swing voter, this argument may be far more appealing than upholding Sections 4b and 5 based on sweeping claims about historical discrimination, or else striking down that landmark piece of legislation.

The current conservative Supreme Court showed last month, in its ruling upholding the Indiana ID law, that it will not perform its historical role of protecting voters.

Last year, the justices ended their term with historical rulings that legalized same-sex marriages nationwide and upheld President Obama's healthcare plan for a second time.

In contrast to other socialist states (which upheld the orthodox communist belief that the masses are masters of historical development), WPK ideology asserts that the masses can only initiate revolutionary change through a leader.

In 2005, it upheld a Texas court's right to display the tablets among other historical judicial symbols but said a display in Kentucky crossed the line into inappropriate proselytizing.

6 By contrast, the forbidden points argument is not widely upheld by practitioners of Western medical acupuncture (WMA), 7 given that the concerns are historical rather than evidence-based.

Studies applying the techniques described here have demonstrated a larger spectrum of papillomavirus types associated with different types of benign and malignant tumours and argue that the historical grouping into 'mucosal' and 'cutaneous' HPV types can no longer be upheld [ 44].