Word: upheld
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...daring debate, in opposing separate culture for the deaf, upheld "extreme social Darwinism" as his core value...
...only stipulation not upheld was the swimming requirement, dropped in the late 1970s because it was deemed discriminatory against physically disabled students...
...Wednesday, the NBA suspended "Mad Max" without pay for at least 10 games and fined him $20,000, the highest in league history. If the suspension is upheld in a lengthy appeals process already underway, Maxwell stands to lose nearly...
...were killed. In 1993 a judge convicted Clegg of murder on the grounds that he fired the bullet that killed Reilly after the car had passed the checkpoint and the soldiers were no longer in danger. The sentence: life in prison. Two weeks ago, Britain's appeal court reluctantly upheld the life term under the requirements of a law that it criticized as too unbending. The ruling intensified efforts to obtain Clegg's release. M.P.s, ex-servicemen and newspaper editors have rallied to his cause: more than a million people have signed petitions, while the government is considering...
...many other states, appeals courts have issued rulings that have a similar effect. One of those states is California. In a 1986 spousal-murder case, People v. Zack, which could have serious implications for Simpson, the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of killing his wife, ruling that prosecutors could offer evidence that he had assaulted her repeatedly in the past. In the Simpson case, Deputy District Attorney Scott Gordon told the court, "This murder took 17 years to commit...