Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release, Ashe refused admission to a man found guilty of gun theft. The angry district judge retaliated by detaining two of Ashe's deputies. Though a space for the prisoner later opened up in the county jail, Ashe told himself he had to stand up. Whether state courts will uphold his coup remains to be seen. But for the moment, Ashe had seized the better option available: take over the armory, instead of watching even more dangerous criminals go free...
...some local communists say they can see a justification for Stalin's measures. "We uphold Stalin," says Lawrence. "He made some very serious errors, but he did them in the context of trying to implement communism...
Republican Sen. William Cohen of Maine said in floor debate that he would vote against the president to uphold "America's symbol to a world that is struggling to throw off the chains of dictators...