"widely upheld" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that something is broadly accepted or supported by a large group of people. Here is an example of how to use it in a sentence: "The decision to legalize same-sex marriage was widely upheld by the majority of the country, despite some opposition from conservative groups."
Freedoms of press, speech, and association were widely upheld, and the regime attacked the powers of the church in education and other areas.
Even in the cities, the tradition of burning paper money (also known as "hell money") as offerings to placate ancestors and ghosts is still widely upheld, particularly during the annual tomb sweeping and hungry ghost festivals.
Our work on Israel constitutes a tiny fraction of our work on the Middle East, let alone the world, and our findings on Israeli abuses in Gaza have been widely upheld, including by Judge Richard Goldstone's UN fact-finding mission.
The memory of that massacre provides a heartening reminder that there is a good deal of both hype and plain ignorance behind the claim, widely upheld among the political classes this year, that we are in the throes of the bitterest, most polarizing electoral contest in American history.
The limited publication of such registries under what is known as Megan's Law, for the 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a sex offender who moved into her neighborhood without her family's knowledge, has been widely upheld.
The ideal of a society in which people do not suffer disadvantage from discrimination on grounds of supposed race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation is widely upheld as desirable in itself.
Yet it was widely supported and upheld at the time by most Americans and by the United States Supreme Court.
His opinion is widely expected to be upheld by the ECJ in Luxembourg within the next fortnight, following a long legal battle by a Scottish cross-party group of MSPs, MPs and MEPs, which began last December.
Last year's guilty conviction was the second issued by Italian courts after Knox and Sollecito were cleared of an original one in 2011, and was widely expected to be upheld.
In June 2015, the Director issued a widely publicized decision upholding the ALJ's decision in part and reversing it in part.
Some saw the approach as hypocritical and patronizing, charging that the policy said, in effect, that the West does not expect Africans to uphold widely held standards of democracy or human rights that are emphasized in other parts of the world.
