uphold

Object

• complaint: We did not uphold the complaint against the PCT.
• dignity: Principle: Members of the museum profession should observe accepted standards and laws and uphold the dignity and honor of their profession.
• conviction: A subsequent appeal in December 1999 upheld that conviction.
• ruling: Nevertheless, the Court was convinced of the increased risk of injury caused by Culkin's exposure to asbestos and upheld the 1993 ruling.
• tenet: That explains why we must always uphold the basic tenets of Marxism.

Preposition: on

• appeal: Note that this decision has been upheld on appeal.
• ground: However, in this case the ET's finding of unfair dismissal was upheld on the grounds of the company's behavior.

Subject

• tribunal: Its decision was upheld by a valuation tribunal but quashed on appeal.
• court: You have almost no rights that you can rely on to be upheld by a court.

Modifying Another Word

• partially: We investigated 42 allegations of maladministration, 9 of which were upheld or partially upheld.
• unanimously: The Law Lords unanimously upheld the Court of Appeal's decision to overturn the ban on the license originally imposed by the High Court.
• proudly: Motor Caravan Magazine proudly upholds many traditions - our annual Quality Awards, for example, or our comprehensive Insurance Survey.
• consistently: All of these are deeply relevant to the post-tsunami response and must be consistently upheld by every agency.
• thereby: The President's discretionary foreign policy powers to establish different standards for NGOs and foreign governments were thereby upheld.
• therefore: The court therefore upheld the parents ' challenge to the Secretary's decision.

Used with why or when

• what: Sadly, believers in the past have often been known to resort to forgery to uphold what they have little evidence for in fact.

Preposition: in

• case: Complaints were not upheld in 217 cases, and upheld - in whole or part - in 162 cases.

Preposition: by

• tribunal: Its decision was upheld by a valuation tribunal but quashed on appeal.
• court: You have almost no rights that you can rely on to be upheld by a court.