Word: uphold
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...Connor has already left her post before the court decides the FAIR lawsuit—and if Alito does not vote on the case—then FAIR would only need four justices’ votes to uphold a federal appellate panel’s decision overturning the Solomon Amendment last year...
...He’s been able to keep us a collegial body,” she says. “Things have been getting better, and he has helped that process along.”In his four years as mayor, Sullivan says he has tried to uphold the values instilled in him by his family, which has a long history of involvement in Cambridge government. While he has focused during his tenure on making the city budget more efficient, Sullivan says that education has always been his top priority.With reelection to the council likely, Sullivan has been mentioned...
...sure the audience will [be] pleased to know they are hearing the piece as Stravinsky intended it.” Now in their 198th performance season, HRO has a rich history going back to 1808, and with their program for Saturday’s concert, they promise to both uphold and enhance their tradition of musical excellence...
...pianos. Remarkably, his transposition thinned the texture of Bizet’s score without sacrificing any of its vibrancy.With a pared-down set and sound, Serrand’s “Carmen” was forced to rely on the merits of its performers, who did not always uphold the opera’s vigor. Yet at the same time, simplicity gave the production a refreshing ambiguity. Stylistically belonging to no discernible place or time, this production has reinvented “Carmen” as a modern-day romance rather than as a classical masterpiece...
...pleased I am to hear that the self-righteous admitted socialists at the Kremlin on the Charles plan to continue their tireless crusade against the Solomon Amendment, which simply allows the government to withhold money to schools that bar military recruiters on campus. The Supreme Court will almost certainly uphold the constitutionality of the measurefor Gods sake the government can withhold federal dollars to just about anyone who does something it does not like. (For example, not fund football and womens basket-weaving equally at colleges, or try to establish a legal drinking age less than...