be held up
Examples
If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.