Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human rights violations being committed in this country. Renewing the call for divestment from Shell Oil and other oil corporations operating in Nigeria sends the message to these companies to begin involving local citizens in the Niger Delta Region in the decision making processes of oil extraction, and to uphold financial, social, and environmental responsibility to these same communities. FRANK J. GORKE April...
...psychiatrist has a legacy to uphold: his grandfather Auguste was the first to reach the stratosphere in a balloon, and his father Jacques dove to the deepest point of the ocean in a bathyscaphe. "Bertrand believes it is his destiny to fly a balloon around the world," said his rival Andy Elson, as the Orbiter 3 pushed the world record further and further...
...must have a durable resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes of the people there," Khokar said. "We must uphold the right of self-determination of those 12 million people...
...even as we uphold these ideas, Antonio and his immediate daily condition are somewhat overlooked. Antonio likes Harvard and is grateful that this job provides relative benefits and fairly comfortable working conditions. When he first arrived in the United States 12 years ago, Antonio labored day and night at the fish piers of South Boston...
...good for parents to see their kids doing this kind of thing," she says. "It's extremely difficult to be brought up in this culture and maintain some of that tradition, and everyone here is busy with studies, and the fact that students have been able to uphold this is incredible...