We want to live in a society that supports our values and upholds our authority.
"The construction breached national and local planning rules designed to protect the green belt, which local authorities like ours have a duty to uphold," the authority said in a statement.
On Iraq, he said that it was important to uphold the authority of the UN.
Two members of that coalition, Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, voted this time to uphold federal authority.
For my money, UEFA is charging the wrong person if it wishes to uphold the authority of the match officials.
Soon after capturing Tashkent, General Mikhail Chernyayev entered an elaborate compact with local religious scholars, guaranteeing to uphold their authority, and that of other Muslim institutions, such as mosques and charities.
Lacking flexibility or imagination, he was unable to understand that those political deceits that he always practiced in increasingly vain attempts to uphold his authority eventually impugned his honour and damaged his credit.
We were going to war "to uphold the authority of the United Nations", the government said, meanwhile rubbishing the objections of other security council members and initiating military force without any UN Resolution specifically to authorise it.
The UK government claimed to act on behalf of the international community, the report states, "to uphold the authority of the security council knowing that it did not have a majority in the security council in support of such actions.
Blix called claims by Condoleezza Rice, the then US secretary of state, that Washington's policy was one of trying to uphold the authority of the UN security council as "totally absurd".
In those days, the five most conservative justices voted in case after case on the states' rights side, while the four more liberal justices voted to uphold national authority.
