Sentence examples for uphold though from inspiring English sources

Some street vendors still had their reputations to uphold though, and Andrea Nguyen, author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, explained that there were "secret" pho shops that sold quality rice noodles to "customers in the know".

Qualcomm has signed agreements with those manufacturers, which the company expects to continue to uphold, though Qualcomm president Derek Aberle said the company would have to take a "wait-and-see" approach for the future.

The Ninth Circuit decision was largely upheld, though the Supreme Court ruled that suspensions of more than 10 days were not permissible.

The woman was released on appeal earlier this month, but Mr. Ibrahim's sentence was upheld, though reduced to six months, setting off protests by Somali journalists.

The ballot measure was challenged in state court, but in May 2009 it was upheld, though the State Supreme Court allowed the 18,000 same-sex marriages to stand.

In the United States, the use of the Alien Tort statute to pursue violators of human rights became an accepted legal practice, upheld (though somewhat narrowed) by a 2004 Supreme Court decision.

The case has thus far been upheld, though it won't be brought to trial until next June.

He wrote that "Lost's tradition of opening the year with a killer, capture-the-imagination sequence is honored and upheld, though the thing I loved most was how it was brazenly frank (and engagingly funny) about the heady high-concept conceit that will define the season".

In particular, they point to quarantine laws, which this Court has repeatedly upheld even though they appear to single out interstate commerce for special treatment.

Complaints about Dannii Minogue's homophobia have not been upheld, even though her X Factor remark about Danyl Johnson's sexuality was certainly laboured and unnecessary.

He reads from a speech by New York's first education commissioner, Andrew Draper, delivered in 1912: "There will have to be standards here, and they will have to be upheld, even though the powerful would break them down".