Meanings of upheld for in English

Decorum was upheld for the most part of the address.

Jan would amble amiably forward, right up to the stranger's feet, with head upheld for a caress.

A former senior French Polynesian politician Emile Vernaudon has had his ineligibility to hold office upheld for another three years.

Nor, indeed, can that order be called Society which is not upheld for the benefit of every one of its members.

In December 1998, in the Court of Criminal Appeal, Gillane had an eight-year sentence upheld for soliciting two men to murder his wife.

This tradition was upheld for more than a century until President Woodrow Wilson spoke in person to a joint session of Congress in 1913.

The prosecution in French Polynesia has asked for jail sentences to be upheld for those appealing their convictions over the 2007 Air Moorea crash.

His Spirit will never leave us!' Thus through her wisdom and encouragement the Cause of Christ was upheld for all the days to come.

Thus it came about, and thus we have seen the peaceful policy of the German Emperor, which he has upheld for twenty-five years, completely wrecked.

The glittering empire set up by Napoleon the Third and upheld for a time by French bayonets, was even then, however, tottering to its fall.

Luckily, marriages were upheld for the estimated 18,000 couples who received marriage licenses in the four-month window before Proposition 8 took effect.