Sentence examples for uphold legislation from inspiring English sources

The bleak assessment _ the most pointed yet from Reid _ came as the House voted 215-199 to uphold legislation ordering troops out of Iraq next year.

And so it might be argued that the protection of the track from straying stock and the protection of stock from moving trains would, within the foregoing principles, uphold legislation imposing an attorney's fee in actions against railroad corporations.

Whilst this ruling will not end the widespread discrimination against Roma that exists in Hungary and elsewhere, it does send out a message to other authorities that the courts will uphold legislation preventing segregation, and that punitive measures will be taken against those who break it.

Admittedly, there are some approaches to living constitutionalism that cut in favor of Kelo, most notably Thayerian deference, the idea that courts must uphold legislation against constitutional challenge unless there is no even minimally reasonable constitutional argument in defense of the law.

Instead of allowing constitutional challengers to prevail by adducing evidence that the government's actions did not serve any public-oriented end that the government claimed to be pursuing, the Court would uphold legislation by hypothesizing justifications for the government's actions that had no basis in the record.

In FCC v. Beach Communications (1993), the Court stated that under rational basis review, judges must uphold legislation "if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for it"; those challenging legislation must "negative every conceivable basis which might support it"; and the government need not justify legislation with "evidence or empirical data".

We have consistently upheld legislation that affects contract rights far more substantially than does the HUD circular.

In the UK, the courts have just upheld legislation forcing tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging.

This Court has upheld legislation regulating admissions to public entertainments, Western Turf Association v. Greenberg, 204 U.S. 359, and providing for censorship of motion pictures, Mutual Film Corp. v. Ohio Industrial Commission, 236 U.S. 230. 2.

When the state Supreme Court in December upheld legislation that dissolved RDAs across California, that money was put in jeopardy.

The media is always much more interested in outlandish rulings striking down legislation than thoughtful ones upholding legislation.