Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution passed last spring read in part: "We uphold Congressional investigating committees as such, but oppose their deviation from their just course." This was interpreted as aimed particularly at the McCarthy Investigating Committee...
CICCU believers deny that they are literalists or anything but plain Christians. "We simply uphold the fundamental, orthodox beliefs of the church. In short, we believe in the Apostles' Creed. We do not prefix it with a 'maybe'" says CICCU's president...
...told her that her duty as a Princess demanded that she should uphold the Archbishop of Canterbury's view? She consulted him; he has made no secret of his dogma. But surely no one except our Parliament and the Governments of other Commonwealth countries has any right to make any statement involving such a choice. The question of succession is not a matter for the royal prerogative (or for the Archbishop) but for the British and the other Common wealth Premiers...
...arms policy, the United States must uphold its determination to avert a ruinous armaments race in the area. The U.S. should certainly refrain from attempting to outdo the Soviets in winning Arab friendship, even if arms shipments are the only way to Arab hearts. Whatever Mr. Dulles' cherished plans for a Middle Eastern defense arrangement directed against the Soviet Union, he should remember that in Arab eyes, enemy number one is not Russia, but Israel...
Becket lived high, but only, Biographer Duggan maintains, to uphold his position. He sipped water flavored with lime blossoms while his guests downed Gascon wine. When Henry picked Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury-largely to get control of the church and church funds-Thomas accepted reluctantly. "The love you now feel for me," he said prophetically, "will turn to bitter hate...