Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know just how tough it is to make a society live up to the lofty ideals with which it was established. So do the Israelis. For the past 43 years, they've been shoveling the same stuff as us. The difference is that they've been trying to uphold Western values in a region where nobody else does...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel of April 9. Disappointing because the Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian moral and ethical tradition upon which our society and many others are based. The very idea of homosexuality is anathema to both the Jewish faith and AALARM's mandate to uphold traditional American values. Therefore, it has grown uncomfortably obvious that AALARM, in this instance, is the more sincere advocate of the Jewish value structure than the "Jewish Center" at Harvard...
Last week the Egyptian Supreme State Security Court acquitted Khaled and four others. Six received suspended sentences. Nine, including the group's alleged leader, Mahmoud Noureddin Soleiman, drew sentences ranging from three years to life. President Hosni Mubarak, who will review the verdict, is expected to uphold it. Analysts say it was fair, since the government's case against Khaled was based on hearsay and the confessions of other defendants...
...second clash in as many months between the governor and the predominantly Democratic legislature, many Republican senators fought to uphold Weld's veto of a bill which would roll back his cabinet member's salaries from $85,000 to the lower levels that the Dukakis administration paid...
CONSERVATIVES must also rethink their objectives. By marginalizing gays, society denies them the chance to affirm community values--the very values we claim to uphold. For example, logic would hold that, as champions of faith and fidelity, AALARM should advocate legal gay marriage. The prospect of legal same-sex marriage would, as Andrew Sullivan has brilliantly argued, "traditionalize" gay life by removing one of the many barriers now preventing gays from entering the social mainstream...