Sentence examples for uphold the practice from inspiring English sources
"uphold the practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this phrase when talking about maintaining an accepted set of beliefs or behaviors. For example: "Our company strives to uphold the practice of providing excellent customer service."
And religious traditions generally uphold the practice as a great virtue.
While many continue to uphold the practice, it is increasingly being equated with backwardness, and men who have attained a given social class spurn it.
The court upheld the practice of imprisonment without charge — called administrative detention — if used sparingly.
More states may soon decide to require photo ID now that the Supreme Court has upheld the practice.
A decade ago, the Supreme Court upheld the practice of posting the names, photographs and addresses of sex offenders online, and now many states maintain Web sites with that information.
It upheld the practice in the schools of DeKalb County, Ala., in which students led Christian prayers over the intercom and before graduations and other school events.
Here is a Google map mash-up put together by activists trying to fight the Supreme Court decision under Kelo v. City of New London that upheld the practice.
The denomination first apologized in 1995 for its role in upholding the practice of slavery.
Today, a narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld the practice of sectarian prayers before local council meetings in the town of Greece, New York.
In Town of Greece, New York v. Galloway, the Court upheld the practice of opening monthly town board meetings with a prayer.
The abrogation of jury trial has also been criticized by attorney and law professor David Rowe, the son of the Appeals Court justice who wrote the decision in the Stone case upholding the practice.
