Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Bush's solicitor general, he suited up every month for Supreme Court combat, often arguing with cool conviction such passionate issues as flag burning and school prayer before the feisty Justices. Later he was paid more than $1 million a year to help corporate giants uphold their legal victories and reverse their losses. His greatest strength in court has always come from his obsessive preparation out of court. Last week he spent hours in moot sessions with his assistants, who assumed the role of committee Democrats, testing him on every aspect of the case...
...patriarch. The Spanish government on Friday formalized its request to extradite General Augusto Pinochet, leaving the ex-dictator's fate in the hands of Britain's House of Lords. The bewigged Law Lords will next week rule on the legality of Pinochet's arrest by British police. If they uphold it, he could be headed for a long holiday in Spain...
Some of the issues on which you and Harshbarger disagree can't be compromised, of course. Those of us who would have preferred a Democrat in the corner office can only hope that the state legislature will uphold its tenuous opposition to the death penalty in the face of your attempts to reinstate it. The legislature will also have to work hard to convince you not to remove any more necessary funding from important social programs just for the sake of a nominal...
Meddling in another country's affairs outsidethe auspices of NATO or the United Nationsviolates the very principle of sovereignty whichthe U.S. wants to uphold, she added...
...takes someone a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty, as David Brock once put it, to assemble such a combustible mixture. Lionized in the acclaimed movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, the smut publisher came across as a crusader for principle (he went to jail to uphold the First Amendment) with a self-deprecating candor (he doesn't pretend that men buy his magazine to read the profiles). But Hustler's taste for barnyard animals and meat grinders in close proximity to unairbrushed women is so gross that Gloria Steinem and Jerry Falwell found themselves on the same...