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So the sorts of policy changes Obama announced Thursday night would, if challenged in court, be upheld as legal.
Why Did Obama Flip-Flop on Immigration?|Paul Campos|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Our work with CKF [Charles Koch Foundation] has always upheld university standards.
Koch Foundation to College: We’ll Give You Millions—if You Teach Our Libertarian Ideology|Center for Public Integrity|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The right to be forgotten is a law passed in 2012 that was upheld this year by the European Commission.
Should We Have the Right to Be Forgotten Online?|Kyle Chayka|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That would have involved overturning a 1977 Court decision that upheld automatic deduction of union dues.
Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives|Michael Tomasky|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Prohibitions on selling and purchasing sex toys have been upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The Town Where Your Sex Toy Could Land You in Jail|Emily Shire, Lizzie Crocker|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It has upheld the grossest errors and the most fiendish theories as the special revelations of God.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Of course, it was not smoke obscuring the moon, she decided; it was a lamp, upheld by an ivory figure—a lamp with a Chinese shade.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
A stone wall upheld its front edge from the narrow street; and on top of this wall stiff hedges grew.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa
However, I have more than ever need of being upheld, and I ought to have given you an account of my perplexity.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
The Manchester school accepted the bill with great favour, and upheld the ministry in carrying it.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

British Dictionary definitions for upheld

upheld

/ (ʌpˈhɛld) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of uphold

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