Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baldwin argued that sanctions had been effective in Rhodesia, because many long-suffering Blacks joined the insurgent National Liberation Front, which eventually toppled the dominant regime by military force. Thus, in the relatively short period of 12 years, sanctions were "successful." In fact, many academic proponents of economic sanctions uphold the case of Rhodesia as their single most successful application...
...disregard by the prince's staff for the basic principles of human rights. It is the willingness of American police officers to sell their services for lengthy hotel stays and disregard the protection of citizens and students. We believe that the Cambridge Police Department has failed to uphold its sworn duty to enforce the law, and that its officers have lied by denying that they witnessed an assualt that they had watched from a distance of 10 feet...
...Senate is perfectly entitled to turn down a Bork, a Souter, or any other appointee who fails, in its estimation, to sufficiently uphold these political ends--regardless of the appointee's scholarly qualifications. If it came to a standoff between the Senate and the President, the voters would eventually be called upon to break the dead-lock by voting one or the other out of office--the surest guarantee that the Supreme Court will reflect the political values of the citizenry...
...court's precarious pro-choice majority and the lives of millions hanging in the balance, the Senate must dare to err on the side of caution. It can and should reject Souter and other any nominee who will not assure them in unambiguous language that he or she will uphold the right to abortion against all encroachments. Some things are worth fighting...
...University has dragged its feet on the issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits derived from institutionalized racism...