uphold

IPA: ʌphˈoʊɫd

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned)

Examples of "uphold" in Sentences

Noa - how can you "uphold" your claim when it is transparently false?
Now, in a deep recession, all of the sudden he wants to "uphold" the law!
It is also not for us to decide the Charlottesville should "uphold" the Constitution either.
And in this way, every other minute some actor or actress would approach Dobek, who solemnly promised to "uphold" them all.
However, when I became Circleman of Varagog, like my father before me, I gave my word to uphold the will of the Inner Circle.
Willingly abusing power to break the fundamental laws of the Constitution, a document that our elected officials are SWORN to uphold, is treason.
This latest incident in Afghanistan shows just how far the country has to go in resolving their attitudes toward women and free speech, and the democracy we struggle to uphold from the Taliban is scarcely any better at all.
Seoul's Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported that Kim ordered senior officials at the State Security Department in March to "uphold" his youngest son as head of the agency, while doling out foreign-made luxury cars to the officials as gifts.
WIth the departure of Darth Cheney, America will again uphold the rule of law at home and not the petty rule of an oligarch-tyrant who believed “l’etat c’est moi” was the policy for both 300 million Americans as well as untold countless illegally-detained and - tortured overseas in his gulags. —