Word: upholder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official administrator of the recent illegitimate referendum, which included council members tabling in their own houses, ballots being left unsecured and voters not being verified as they voted--all violations of proper election procedure. Despite the obvious improprieties, Liston voted two weeks, ago, along with 21 other members, to uphold the results of the woefully flawed election...
McGuire claims to uphold "rational argument," yet his polemics rely on incendiary rhetoric and false evidence coupled with a refusal to engage the larger issues he attacks. "What is `empowerment," he asks, "but a code word for...the celebration of `liberated mothers' and their bastard children...
...uphold something that explicit [inour by-laws], we should just as well say that allcouncil offices are self-defined," she said...
...This gift is above all a symbol of the essential values that the Goldensons havebeen committed to uphold throughout their livesand work," Rudenstine said in a press release...
...council voted 28-23 uphold Gabay's decision, attaining the required majority...