Sentence examples for upholds as from inspiring English sources

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights upholds as a basic human right "the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution".

The Bible also commands slaves to obey their masters, parents to stone unruly children, and upholds as heroes of the faith men with multiple wives and concubines".

It also has a tune by Lincoln and Max Roach ("Lonesome Lover"), and a manifesto of sorts in "Musical Genocide," which casts an unapologetic look backward at what Mr. Porter upholds as a more enlightened musical era.

The rescinding of Mr. Modi's invitation just weeks before he was scheduled to address the forum went against the most fundamental tenets of freedom of thought, speech and inquiry that the University of Pennsylvania categorically upholds as published policy.

When Canty talks to Joel Salatin, the farmer-writer made famous by Pollan, whose Polyface Farms, in the Shenandoah Valley, "Farmageddon" (like "Food, Inc". before it) upholds as a model, he descries "non-scalable capricious regulations" and asks why the government hates freedom.

That's a responsibility I intend to uphold as long as I am in this office.

Mr. Genachowski has concluded that the pending combination of NBC and Comcast meets the so-called public interest standards that the F.C.C. is charged with upholding, as long as the conditions are imposed, the officials said.

The new, improved Murray — toughened by Lendl's mentoring — now has a reputation to uphold, as well as his golden track record that was celebrated with the presentation of a cake wheeled onto the court during his postmatch interview.

The Bulgarians were sentenced to death on charges of deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children with the AIDS virus in 1999, and their sentences were upheld as recently as last month.

Disclosure requirements were upheld (as anticorruption measures).

He had a reputation to uphold as an aggressive commander.