Word: upholds
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Supporters of the statute claimed that the law was not directed at silencing any particular point of view, and was thus not restricting the right to free speech. Numerous experts--Harvard's Laurence H. Tribe '62 among them--said the Court would probably uphold...
...would have allowed Chinese students who feared persecution in their homeland in the wake of last year's Tiananmen massacre to remain in the U.S. The bill had passed the Senate overwhelmingly, and most of his advisers recommended that Bush not invest his prestige in an uphill battle to uphold his veto. Sununu strongly disagreed. He persuaded Bush to put a full-court press on every Republican Senator, promising to protect the students by Executive Order without offending the prickly Chinese leadership. What was at stake, Sununu stressed, was the President's ability to conduct foreign policy without congressional meddling...
...Members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA must systematically apply the mass line in all their work, resolutely uphold the Party's discipline, and take initiative in carrying out its line and policies...
...classmates in the armed forces is discouraging to advocates of gay rights in general and non-discrimination in the military in particular. The underlying assumption is that the dregs of society who fill the enlisted ranks of the armed services--"crackers," "rednecks," "hillbillies" and "homeboys"--cannot be expected to uphold the same standards of tolerance and non-discrimination as the rest of the country...
THIS situation is not acceptable for a non-profit educational institution that purports to uphold a set of ethical standards. Open discussion and careful consideration of all activities are implicit mandates in a high-profile university that advocates social and economic responsibility...