Sentence examples for were to uphold from inspiring English sources

If the court were to uphold his conviction it could put an unbearable strain on Enrico Letta's left-right government.

If the supreme court were to uphold the high court's verdict, India will look the same the morning after, but the common sense of the republic will have shifted.

If the supreme court were to uphold the lower courts it would be an important blow for the constitutional checks and limitations on which any state based on the rule of law, not just the US, depends.

That reasoning prompts another question - if the N.C.A.A. were to uphold Marco Baldi's appeal, would the Redmen be allowed to use him in a replay of a tournament loss?

But if those judges and other courts were to uphold this ruling, it would clearly undermine the main goal of Obamacare, which was to reduce the number of uninsured Americans.

Its presence in the speech as delivered and distributed to the press (the White House has since corrected its official text) reveals just how anxious the authors were to uphold the stilted linguistic conventions of the form - and for good reason.

That goal, he said, is to uphold American values.

His job is to uphold and defend the United States Constitution.

"The CQC's statutory duty is to uphold the law.

Surely, the job of the Council is to uphold international treaties, not to abrogate them.

"The main objective of this institution is to uphold international law," Mr. Salam told reporters.