Sentence examples for upholds power from inspiring English sources

Supreme Court upholds power of independent commissions to draw districts.  .

Now if feels as if comments uphold power structures instead of subverting them: sexism, racism and homophobia are the norm; threats and harassment are common.

"It feels as if comments uphold power structures instead of subverting them: sexism, racism and homophobia are the norm; threats and harassment are common," she said, adding that this was a view many prominent female writers would recognise.

If CSFB wants to salvage what is left of its business in Japan, it ought to consider another Japanese tradition: the discretionary deference that upholds discretionary power.

First, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Helms upholds the power and prerogatives of the legislative branch in the foreign-policy process.

Munn v. Illinois, (1877), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries.

Russia, however, did not.A federal district judge in North Carolina, a big tobacco-growing state, upheld the power of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco as a drug.

His opinion for the court in 1947 upheld the power of the federal courts to enjoin a strike in coal mines then under control of the federal government.

Goodness is upholding the power structures that have traditionally benefited the small group of men who think they have a monopoly on defining "goodness".

Nixon transformed the Court from an institution that had begun to face the plight of the individual back into an institution that would uphold the power of the state.

Although he concurred in the proslavery Dred Scott decision (1857), he spoke for the court in the 1863 Prize Cases, which upheld the power of the president to proclaim a blockade of Confederate ports and to seize neutral shipping.