Sentence examples for uphold term from inspiring English sources

Linda Stone Davidoff, executive director of the Citizens Union, whose opinion of Mr. Vallone's tenure is decidedly mixed, credits him with fighting the mayor "tooth and nail on campaign finance reform," and then holding the line against council members to uphold term limits legislation favored by voters even though he was personally opposed to it.

We hypothesized that this signal diminishment was caused by particle degradation by disassociation of polymer dithioester group from the gold surface, suggesting the necessity for a covalent Au S linkage to uphold longer term in vivo stability.

But the city did not uphold the terms of the agreement, state officials say.

"People are struggling with what it means to uphold the terms of your mortgage contract and what it means to walk away.

The state-owned Russian gas monopoly Gazprom responded by threatening to levy a multibillion-dollar fine against Ukraine for failing to uphold the terms of the purchasing agreement.

In a separate report on its website, Xinhua said the court upheld a term of life in prison for a pregnant woman also convicted for taking part in the attack.

If we only target social value without thinking through the economic capability, it cannot uphold long-term growth.

For instance, in the presence of bankruptcy risk, the tax benefit associated with high debt to equity ratios is counterbalanced by the firm's potential inability to uphold long-term work contracts.

In order to uphold the terms of the Interagency Bison Management Plan, the government organizes the killing of hundreds of bison every year.

Amherst, who also presided over the surrender of Montreal in 1760, refused the surrendering garrisons at Louisbourg and Montreal the normal honours of war, due in part to the French failure to uphold the terms of capitulation in this action.

In June Bombay's High Court upheld the terms of the original agreement.