Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role was to discourage people from taking legitimate political action. All in all, the Election Commission has acted only to discredit itself and its ostensible function. The desire of the Commission to see fewer rather than more voters registered makes a mockery of the laws it claims to uphold...
...Charging the newspapers with criminal offenses under the Espionage Act holds more promise of success. In fact, during the Government's unavailing effort to block publication, at least four Supreme Court Justices indicated that they might very well uphold a subsequent espionage conviction. The act, among other specifications, bans "unauthorized possession of information relating to the national defense" and failing to give it up to the proper authorities; such information is obviously just as present in a Xerox copy as in the original. In addition, the act outlaws communicating such information to others, which could be taken to include...
...years. As for the resolution on doctrinal formulations, the delegates voted 485-425 for a curiously schizophrenic compromise. It retained the conservative preamble and "whereas" sections of the right-wing resolution, but substituted a moderate version of the resolution proper, simply asking-not requiring-church theologians to "honor and uphold" doctrinal statements of church conventions...
...talk to me about impropriety," he says. "The time has come for the adult population to be outraged and not wrapped up with propriety." Moreover, he adds, "because of a judge's knowledge and respect for the law and because of his primary responsibility to uphold the Constitution, a judge has a special obligation to draw attention to the lawlessness of this...
...plaintiff, Controleur Général de Police Michel Gonzales, was confident that no judge would uphold the defendant. In polite society, after all, one never even says merde outright but le mot de Cambronne, a reference to the same word used by a Napoleonic general when the British suggested that he surrender at Waterloo...