Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.
The systems upholding the authority of the Vedas are Vedānta, Mīmāṃsā, Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika, while the systems that challenged its scriptural authority include Cārvāka materialism and various schools of Buddhism and Jainism.
This follows, since the necessary consequence of the argument is to virtually challenge the legislative power to classify, and the numerous decisions upholding that authority.
He is pre-emenintly the Tudor politician who embodies sticking to firm principles, upholding moral authority and obeying the dictates of conscience.
"We had huge banners of Chairman Mao and we would denounce the state, which was denounced as fascist, and we would be upholding the authority of the Communist party of China and Chairman Mao as the leaders of the world revolution," she said.
"Between 2006 and 2010, UK forces provided vital security for the population of Sangin, disrupting the insurgency in an area the Taliban had considered its heartland, preventing the spread of violence elsewhere, upholding the authority of the Afghan government in the area and enabling economic development to take place.
California's workplace safety agency last week announced that it won what it called a first-ever appeal, upholding its authority to stop unsafe activities during porn film shoots.
The use of personal resources -- whether small, great, or more likely insufficient -- by millions of self-insured Americans substantially affects the interstate health care market and could be easily viewed as a basis for upholding Congressional authority to regulate the market through the health care reform law.
"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.
In 2002 the FCC agreed, and in 2005 the Supreme Court upheld its authority to agree.
