upholding

Speech parts

1. upholding - Noun

2. upholding - Verb

Meaning

upholding

present participle of uphold

upholding (plural upholdings)

The act by which something is upheld.

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Examples

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. Paddy Ashdown

It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland. Vladimir Lenin

Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob. Margaret Thatcher

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty? Alan Moore

And finally, Africa's progress will depend on upholding the human rights of all people -- for if each of us is to be treated with dignity, each of us must be sure to also extend that same dignity to others. Barack Obama

Pride and sweirnesse would have meikle upholding. Scottish Proverb

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