Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was some irony in this clash of judicial views. Rehnquist was appointed to the court by Richard Nixon and promoted to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan, both harsh critics of activist judges. As a civil rights attorney, Marshall won landmark rulings that overturned long-standing precedents upholding legal segregation. Now Rehnquist and his like-minded colleagues seemed bent on pursuing an aggressive conservative agenda, while Marshall was fighting to uphold the decisions of the past...
...which literalist interpretations of the Bible are embraced and heterosexual marriage is the only state in which sex is without sin. Nonetheless, these groups are taking part in the debate from the sidelines. Two weeks ago, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention pleaded for "all Christians to uphold the biblical standard of human sexuality against all onslaughts...
Jalali said he was arrested for his attempts to uphold his national identity, including speaking Kurdish and writing Kurdish poetry Eventually he was expelled from Iran, he said...
...Steiner's responsibility to uphold the enforcement of the law, while at the same time attempting to address the concerns of students, the police chief says. "And that's not an easy position to be in sometimes," he says...
MACHIAVELLI TEACHES that nations and politicians have no ideals, no virtues; they have only interests and strengths. In this sense, Bush is a classic political hypocrite. He chose to liberate Kuwait under the banner of American ideals--ideals he refuses to uphold just a few weeks later...