Word: uphold
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...bill calling for a fast-track review process. A three-judge panel will hear McConnell's challenge, then the Supreme Court. At issue: the constitutionality of the bill's soft-money and issue-ad restrictions. "We started with the question, What do we think the court would uphold?" says Trevor Potter, a McCain ally and former Federal Elections Commission chairman...
...special treatment lavished upon Tommy and other high-profile defendants has reinforced skepticism about those very issues. For too many Indonesians, the trials seem stage-managed, designed to give the appearance of jurisprudence without meting out any real punishment. "I don't see any political will to uphold the law," says National Law Commission member Frans Winarta. "The trials are just moves to dampen public hostility and demands for justice...
...human life, regularly breaks through such narrow boundaries. But the church insists that its prohibitions are not intended to isolate or wound the divorced, or homosexuals or teenagers in love. Its doctrinal rigidity is maintained out of compassion and besides, the church has no other choice than to uphold the truth, however painful for those caught in humanity's crooked timber...
...violence and warning more extreme elements in the Hindu nationalist movement to call off plans to build a new temple over the ruins of the Babri mosque. Besides the obvious political concerns, India's courts have ruled any such construction illegal, and the prime minister has vowed to uphold...
...Sharon's political problems may be underscored by the fact that 150 Israeli army reserve officers have now signed a petition refusing to serve in the West Bank and Gaza, where they say they are forced to uphold a morally untenable occupation. Their numbers may be small, but their action would have been almost unthinkable six months ago as Israelis closed ranks in the face of an intifada viewed even by the Israeli peace camp as a treacherous betrayal by Arafat...