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Foucault maintains that all socially-constructed hierarchal systems demand forms of surveillance, whether actual or imaginary, to preserve dominant and subordinate positions according to those upholding authority or power.

We want to live in a society that supports our values and upholds our authority.

But within those same pages of the Hebrew Bible there is also a persistent opposing counter-narrative that confronts that first narrative as being untrue and unjust, and that upholds questioning authority in the name of compassion as a virtue.

If one thinks that class (varna) can be abandoned and, if one upholds the authority of the Vedas, what would one do with Purusha-sukta ("Hymn to Primal Man") hymn 10.90 of the Rig Veda, which includes specific references to the birth of the class (varna) system?

The federal district judge who heard the case on the 2011 rule upheld the authority of the Department to issue the rule, and he upheld the prong of the rule evaluating schools by comparing the debt of program graduates to their earnings (debt-to-earnings or DTE).

In 2002 the FCC agreed, and in 2005 the Supreme Court upheld its authority to agree.

The State Court of Appeals upheld the authority of the Public Service Commission to approve a program for low-income consumers.

As Condoleezza Rice put it, the alliance action "upheld the authority of the council".

On Iraq, he said that it was important to uphold the authority of the UN.

Two members of that coalition, Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, voted this time to uphold federal authority.

Four appeals courts have since upheld presidential authority for such warrantless searches.