Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides mustered enough votes among Republicans and fiscally conservative Southern Democrats to sustain the vetoes in the House. On the public jobs bill, for example, the 22 Democrats who voted to sustain the veto included 18 Southerners. Similarly, 35 Democrats, 26 of them from the South, voted to uphold Ford's veto of the housing bill. In their most embarrassing failure of all, the Democratic leaders attacked Ford's energy conservation program as weak and ineffective but could not pass an adequate alternative of their own. Complained Democratic Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri: "We're looking like...
Such advertising is now banned by law in 33 states, and by agreement among druggists' associations in most areas of the 17 others. Pharmacists argue unconvincingly that these restrictions are necessary to uphold the dignity of their profession against cut-price sellers. They also fear that open price slashing by the 10,600 chain-drug outlets would drive some of the 40,000 independent pharmacies out of business...
...same breath, Ford presumed to grant on behalf of all Americans in the U.S. "recognition of Spain's significance as a friend and partner." Ford's alliance with Franco's fascist government only speaks for the blindness of his foreign policy to the democratic ideals they pretend to uphold...
...week ago The Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled. "A Test for Harvard," which suggested that Bok could "uphold academic standards" by denying Kearns's tenure...
...will stand by our friends, we will honor our commitments. We will uphold our country's principles...