Word: upholding
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Such a regulated system would also help to uphold the fundamental educational principles of our university. Do we want an education system where concerns about scientific achievements top everything else, or do we aspire to an environment in which a student can look up to the professors as role models? We have complete confidence that Harvard University, with its ample resources, inspiring leadership and long-standing commitment to quality education, can accomplish the goal with the support of its faculty and students...
Seton, a member of Stewart's campaign, said he informed the E.C. of violations because he believed it was important uphold the rules of the election, not because he wanted to boost Stewart's campaign...
...decision was not unexpected: To uphold the emergency appeal ? and send Woodward back to jail for killing baby Matthew Eappen ? the prosecution would have had to display a reason why this cannot go through the normal appeals process. Most legal experts couldn?t see one, and the judge seemed to concur. Even in a high profile case such as this, the wheels of justice spin slowly...
...rally at all is sure to help Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa sleep a little easier with his determination to uphold the former colony's ailing currency pegged to the U.S. dollar. This was vital for property and banking interests ? which means, as TIME Asia correspondent John Colmley says, "people have been prepared to take the hit for the currency peg. If that were to go, you'll see them jumping out of windows all over town...
When the leader of the world's most populous country speaks, people listen--though it isn't always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...