upheld
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A version of this article appears in print on April 9, 2014, on page A6 of the with the headline: Japan’s Foreign Minister Says Apologies to Wartime Victims Will Be Upheld.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2014
Upheld on appeal by the Ecuadorian judiciary, the judgment—the biggest environmental verdict ever—reflects a finding that Texaco egregiously contaminated the Amazonian jungle when it produced oil there decades ago.
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 26, 2013
Bayou Award Against Goldman Is Upheld Goldman Sachs has been dealt another setback in its effort to overturn $20.5 million arbitration award stemming from the 2005 collapse of the hedge fund manager Bayou Group.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2012
In four terse de cisions, it: � Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at every step thou mov'st Upheld by two; yet still thou lov'st, My Mary!
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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