Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Procrastination is a long-standing tradition among Harvard's undergraduates, dating from well before The Game and counting many more disciples than ice cream in the Union, sex in Widener and the Primal Scream. My classmates and I have done our best to uphold the tradition, starting off gently with a few late problem sets our first year and eventually blooming into full-fledged cases of seniorities...
...military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that a "New Right" -- toughened with the grass- roots racism of George Wallace, fortified intellectually by the neoconservatives -- emerged to uphold the traditional icons of God, family and flag...
...McGuire and others who share his views truly believe that these compromises would occur if homosexuals were officially accepted by the military, then it is they who are actually compromising the military's effectiveness. They do so by implying that professional soldiers, sworn to perform their duties and uphold the military's high standards of conduct, would be dissuaded from doing so because of the sexual tensions that would be introduced by the open presence of homosexuals in military units...
...said that the duty of the lawyer is to uphold the Constitution and the principle of "innocent until proven guilty...
What the extremist special-interest grifters are failing to grasp is that the federal judiciary is not a democratic body. It was expressly constructed to be sheltered from the day-to-day whims of the people in order to better uphold the Constitution and maintain the rule of law. Federal judges are not elected nor are they subject to removal. They were placed above the political process by the framers of the constitution so they could check the excesses of the other two branches with impunity. Now, sadly, they have been dragged into the circus that they are supposed...