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verbthe simple past tense and past participle of uphold. Words nearby upheldupgrade, upgrowth, Upham, upheaval, upheave, upheld, Up-Helly-Aa, uphill, uphold, upholster, upholsterer Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for upheldSo 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 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
For a third time, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of searching a person without probable cause. Are We Addicted to Drug Testing?|Abby Haglage|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST The existing disqualifications, indeed, were upheld by little but the purely obstructive sentiment. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen Even the men who had upheld the archway of swords dropped their weapons with a crash and knelt also. The Lost Prince|Frances Hodgson Burnett I see it as a fearful thing, towering, expanding, upheld by the toil and the agony of millions. The Journal of Arthur Stirling|Upton Sinclair What though George Godolphin was your husband, you need not have upheld him in his course. The Shadow of Ashlydyat|Mrs. Henry Wood He was a plain German, upheld by a sense of duty and single-hearted trust in God. Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt|Various
British Dictionary definitions for upheld
verbthe past tense and past participle of uphold Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to upheldbacked, sustained, maintained |