back suggests supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling.
refusing to back the call for sanctions
champion suggests publicly defending one unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate his or her own cause.
championed the rights of children
Example Sentences
He took an oath to uphold the Constitution. They have a responsibility to uphold the law. The Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.
Recent Examples on the WebProducer, film composer and one-man-band Jon Brion was a weekly presence starting in the ’90s, before that routine became too much for even that prolific a talent to uphold eternally. Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022 Since 2001, when the group was last in power, the international community pushed for legal protections for Afghan women and trained a cadre of young female judges, prosecutors and lawyers to uphold them. Salma Abdelaziz And Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022 His instincts veered to our foundational documents like the Bill of Rights and leaders who sought to uphold them. Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 In June, South Korea’s unification ministry made a public request for Pyongyang to uphold the terms of that inter-Korean agreement, as North Korea was experiencing heavy rainfall at the time. Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022 The group is also demanding that the board members who voted to uphold it resign from the school board. Morgan Sung, NBC News, 15 June 2022 There, 71% of respondents wanted the court to uphold the decision, while 26% did not and 3% didn’t know. Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2022 Many Georgia health care facilities already had been preparing for the Supreme Court to uphold the federal vaccination mandate that applied to their sector. Ariel Hart, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022 The Olympic committee has adopted new requirements for host cities to uphold international standards on human rights, but those do not take effect until 2024.New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022 See More