Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...mayor, who has made it his mission to change the habits of his fellow New Yorkers in regard to everything from graffiti to jaywalking, is betting that the courts will uphold his new tactic, as the Supreme Court has done in the case of seizure of assets from drug traffickers. But it is not clear yet whether the judiciary will be willing to balance rights in the same way in the case of drunken driving, which is a less serious offense. And make no mistake, the measures are draconian: "Seizing a vehicle can be a real hardship for a spouse...
Many speculated that the Supreme Court would uphold the federal court ruling. Because of the simplicity of its criteria, the policy was considered a weak case of race-based admissions...
...three internecine conflicts (the English Civil Wars of the 17th century, the 18th century's American Revolution, and the 19th century's American Civil War) it hammered itself into new political, cultural and religious shapes that gave the Anglo cousinhood both energy and stability: "Broadly, the result was to uphold political liberties, commercial progress, technological inventiveness, linguistic ambition, and territorial expansion...
...that said: I LOVE MY NATION, BUT I FEAR MY GOVERNMENT. As he sat at his back-row desk last week, Brownback listened carefully to the House prosecutors making their case and wondered about his duty to a President he wants to treat fairly, the laws he swore to uphold and the people of Kansas whose interests he promised to defend...