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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uphold
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a court upholds sth (=says that an earlier decision was right)
▪ It seems likely that the court will uphold his conviction.
maintain/carry on/continue/uphold a tradition (=make a tradition continue in the same way or at the same standard as before)
▪ We maintain a tradition of cider making dating from Norman times.
uphold a complaint (=say it is reasonable)
▪ The complaint was upheld and the advertisement was withdrawn.
uphold a conviction (=officially say that it was right)
▪ The conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
uphold a verdict (=officially say that it was right)
▪ This verdict was upheld at appeal.
uphold sb’s rights (=defend their rights)
▪ I will uphold the rights of the people of this country.
uphold the honour of sb/sth (=defend it)
▪ She felt duty bound to uphold the honour of her country.
uphold values
▪ The new party was dedicated to upholding traditional values.
uphold/allow an appeal (=give permission for a decision to be changed)
▪ Judge Gabriel Hutton upheld Smith's appeal against a £250 fine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ The court of appeals upheld all except the spousal-consent requirement, a judgment affirmed by the Court.
▪ If the appeal is upheld the appellant will be consulted on any statement to be published.
▪ The court of appeals upheld the sentences for the two remaining after one died of a heart attack.
▪ A federal appeals court upheld the ban, approved by California voters in 1996.
authority
▪ A large portion of the State's scarce resources was absorbed in upholding the serf-owners' authority and subsidizing their income.
▪ The hapless governor, who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan's authority, was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801.
▪ In a society based on serfdom, order depended upon upholding the authority of the serf-owners.
▪ One has a duty to uphold and support authorities if they meet the conditions of the service conception as explained above.
ban
▪ The High Court upheld a ban preventing the Mail on Sunday from publishing more extracts.
▪ A federal appeals court upheld the ban, approved by California voters in 1996.
▪ Ronald Reagan appointee, was on the panel that unanimously upheld the gas chamber ban Wednesday.
claim
▪ The House of Lords upheld their claim.
complaint
▪ And they upheld a complaint lodged by a viewer.
court
▪ Rather, the courts have upheld commercial contracts incorporating the rules of commodity associations.
▪ The court of appeals upheld all except the spousal-consent requirement, a judgment affirmed by the Court.
▪ A second meaning of the term certainty relates to the probability that the court would uphold the finding of the initial decision-maker.
▪ Although the Supreme Court has upheld agency-shop provisions, states are still free to prohibit agency shops, and some do.
▪ The court of appeals upheld the sentences for the two remaining after one died of a heart attack.
▪ A federal appeals court upheld the ban, approved by California voters in 1996.
▪ A federal court has upheld that deadline, but the Clinton administration has said it can not meet the timetable.
decision
▪ His decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.
▪ The Multiple Sclerosis Society said that it may seek a judicial review if the decision is upheld.
▪ The rule of unanimity on most decisions was upheld.
▪ His decision was upheld by nearly every senior official in his inner circle.
dismissal
▪ Nevertheless, the court noted that the overall trend in the statistics indicated a decrease in student enrollment and upheld the dismissals.
▪ Courts have also upheld the dismissal of teachers who are mentally disabled.
duty
▪ The duty to uphold and support just institutions does not come into play.
▪ Male speaker It's my duty to uphold the law and preserve life.
▪ Tewkesbury Borough Council says it has a duty to uphold planning regulations.
▪ One has a duty to uphold and support authorities if they meet the conditions of the service conception as explained above.
▪ One owes them the duty to uphold and support them.
judge
▪ In the other corner, upholding the first judge, are the rationalists.
law
▪ I uphold the law of this realm - and the law states quite clearly that vagrants are rogues and vagabonds.
▪ Impatience and frustration are growing among those who want to see the state uphold the death penalty law.
▪ The fateful consequences of the Bavarian government's failure to uphold the Law of the Defence of the Republic now became manifest.
▪ There is nothing unfair and nothing bogus or malicious about upholding the law and prosecuting people who are charged with breaking it.
▪ Male speaker It's my duty to uphold the law and preserve life.
▪ We do not believe in the soundness of the views which uphold this law.
order
▪ One is charged with upholding the moral order, while the other equally essential class helps to explain inappropriate affliction.
▪ We uphold the exclusion order as of the time it was made and when the petitioner violated it.
principle
▪ Proprietors' or publishers' obligations: A positive public commitment to upholding the council's principles should be given.
▪ We shall ensure that all staff receive proper training and are required to uphold the principles of this Code.
▪ While he is generally careful to uphold the Politeness Principle, he wishes above all to preserve his own negative face.
right
▪ Its view was that the president's decision to sack the government contravened a section of the constitution upholding fundamental political rights.
state
▪ Although the Supreme Court has upheld agency-shop provisions, states are still free to prohibit agency shops, and some do.
▪ Can teachers be required to swear that they will uphold the federal and state constitutions?
▪ A three-judge district court upheld the state against a claim that the Montana scheme violated Art.
tradition
▪ Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability.
▪ Why is it not upholding this humanitarian tradition now?
▪ She was to uphold the family tradition.
▪ Men see this as exercising their right to free speech, upholding a tradition in cyberspace forged by the early hacker community.
value
▪ Will it continue to uphold the conservative values of those in power, or will it offer a more radical alternative?
▪ Now, he is an avenger, dedicated to upholding Olympic values.
▪ Yet none was anxious about upholding the values of the right.
▪ A close third was his upholding of conservative values.
▪ The peasantry, it seemed, were being squeezed in order to earn foreign exchange and uphold the value of the rouble.
▪ Men must change sufficiently so that their representation of life and their political expression uphold humane values.
▪ They all consider themselves to be committed Christians and for the most part would uphold traditional family values.
■ VERB
rule
▪ He said the suit will be amended to reflect the ruling upholding Proposition 209.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A federal court has upheld legislative term limits in Maine.
▪ The court's decision upheld state laws prohibiting doctor-assisted suicide.
▪ The decision was upheld by the US Supreme Court late last year.
▪ They want to uphold traditional family values.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He said the suit will be amended to reflect the ruling upholding Proposition 209.
▪ I uphold the law of this realm - and the law states quite clearly that vagrants are rogues and vagabonds.
▪ In a surprisingly lopsided Senate vote in March, the bill was upheld.
▪ Now, he is an avenger, dedicated to upholding Olympic values.
▪ On serious analysis, very few of these claims are upheld.
▪ The court of appeals upheld all except the spousal-consent requirement, a judgment affirmed by the Court.
▪ The Lords had initially upheld the interlocutory injunctions although the House subsequently refused to make the injunctions permanent.
▪ The rule of unanimity on most decisions was upheld.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uphold

Uphold \Up*hold"\, v. t.

  1. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

    The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity.
    --Dryden.

  2. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

    Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
    --Prov. xxix

  3. Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
    --Shak.

    3. To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uphold

c.1200, "support, sustain," from up (adv.) + hold (v.). Similar formation in Old Frisian upholda, Middle Dutch ophouden, German aufhalten. Meaning "maintain in good condition or repair" is from 1570s. Related: Upheld; upholding.

Wiktionary
uphold

vb. 1 To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. 2 To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

WordNet
uphold

  1. v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" [syn: continue, carry on, bear on, preserve] [ant: discontinue]

  2. stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals

  3. support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict" [syn: maintain]

  4. [also: upheld]

Wikipedia
Uphold

Uphold (formerly Bitreserve) is a cloud-based financial service whereby users can transfer deposits of bitcoin into reserve-backed currencies and commodities allowing anyone with a device to send, receive, and exchange money and commodities for free. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, with offices in San Francisco, Braga, London, and Shanghai, Uphold allows users to convert bitcoin into "cloud money," in 14 currencies ( dollars, euros, yen, rupee and others) and 4 precious metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium). The company also has an open API and has stated interest in addressing the remittance market through partnerships with the retail outlet Elektra and the Salinas Group. (Remittances from the US to Mexico alone ran to an estimated $22 billion last year, according to the World Bank.) Though Uphold holds bitcoins as stable, real-world currency, Anthony Watson, CEO, has stated it is "not a bitcoin company. In terms of bitcoin's relevance to us, it is a means to an end."

Usage examples of "uphold".

And he anon, withoute tarrying, Did his message, and when that he it told, Urban for joy his handes gan uphold.

Tyler Argosy, or any of the army men from the fort who would have been his escort here on their mission to uphold the law.

Even traditionalist religious leaders and respected conservative social commentators regularly get called bigots for doing nothing more than upholding the tenets of their faith.

Cassan is far away, and I shall need to rely on my loyal Duke of Cassan to uphold my law-as I know his regents shall do, during his minority.

Indeed the Court has, without appealing to the Twenty-first Amendment, even gone so far as to uphold a statute requiring a permit for transportation of liquor through the enacting State.

Everywhere, no doubt, he expresses contempt for all that is of sense, blames the commerce of the soul with body as an enchainment, an entombment, and upholds as a great truth the saying of the Mysteries that the soul is here a prisoner.

Heaven, why did you withhold a knowledge that would have upheld me and enheartened me through all that I have suffered?

They passed through colonnades of dark electrum, where silver branches dipped, picked out with mercurial leaves, along fructuous avenues arched over with trees of solid gold and then through sylvan palaces upheld with pillars of diamond and emerald, coronaled with flickering lights.

The herd surged toward her and her goatling companions, who waved upheld forelimbs and whistled in perfect imitation of unicorns.

Demand then that Jad-ben-Otho uphold his godship and the dignity of his priesthood by directing his consuming fires through my own bosom.

Surely a combination of a haggish face, and her supposed service to the caravan would impress Lord Harmond, set to uphold customs as he was.

A statute which excluded aliens ineligible to American citizenship from owning real estate was upheld in 1923 on the ground that the treaty in question did not secure the rights claimed.

This is the same Justice Kennedy who upheld legalized abortion in Planned Parenthood v.

Upon which consideration, how palpable a sin will it be to subject to, or accept of any oath that may be imposed by the said British Parliament, for the maintenance and support of such an Union, or for recognoseing, owning and acknowledging the authority of the said Parliament, and that because of our swearing, and promising subjection to the said Parliament, we do thereby homologate the foresaid sinful constitution, and swear, and promise subjection to the bishops of England who are a considerable part of that Parliament, and so we shall be bound and oblidged to maintain and uphold them in their places, dignities, and offices, which is contrar to the Word of God and our covenants, while the very first article of the Solemn League oblidges us to endeavour the reformation of the religion in the kingdom of England, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, as well as in Scotland.

Egg-shaped as I have said, the wider end was undermost, resting in a broad cup upheld by a slender pedicle silvery-gray and metallic.