upholder

uphold | American Dictionary

uphold
verb[ T ]
us/ˈʌpˈhoʊld/past tense and past participleupheldus/ʌpˈheld/
to defend or maintain a principle or law, or to state that a decision that has already been made, esp. a legal one, is correct:
The Supreme Court upheld California’s term limit measure.

uphold | Business English

uphold
verb[ T ]
 LAWuk /ʌpˈhəʊld/usupheld | upheld
to state that a decision which has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct:
uphold a decision/ruling/appealThe court is said to be upholding its decision.
to keep or defend a principle or law:
When he took office he swore to uphold the laws of the land.
The decision by the court upholds the right of rural Alaskans to subsistence hunt and fish on most waters in Alaska.

upholder

noun[ C ]uk /ʌpˈhəʊldər/ us /-ˈhoʊldɚ/
Our country's reputation as an upholder of standards of freedom and decency is being questioned.

Examples of uphold

uphold
To suggest otherwise is to uphold a doctrine that supports significant violations of patients' rights.
Dramatically increasing repression in this way reflected the monarchy's determination to have provincial elites uphold royal authority.
Timing may vary dramatically between performers or stylistic schools, depending on the aesthetics upheld by the guru.
To be modern is to adopt reason and progress and to uphold the belief that epistemological certainty is attainable.
Such clarity in upholding accepted boundaries suggests an appreciation, if not an interaction, with the natural world that sits stoically within the prevailing utilitarian tradition.
They got their share of the proceedings in the process but in effect actively upheld an unequal political and economic system.
The state court had upheld the livestock classification on the grounds that it was well-known that sheep, unlike cattle, damaged pasture land.
The public good was easy to uphold when you counted yourself as one of the best and first.
When they do, it is most often to uphold and defend the canons of medical ethics.
This creates a duty to train professionals who understand and uphold the duty to regulate their colleagues internally.
When it could not, the existence of property that was the subject of the suit was invoked to uphold the claims of temple dancing girls.
In many cases, the commitment to upholding the value of equal membership may be invoked to explain the diversity of need-oriented distributive arrangements.
I take it that upholding equal membership in communal provision requires the formation of distributive practices in different institutional sub-domains.
The disparity produces cognitive dissonance, particularly among younger adults who are the most likely to uphold the ideal notions of elder care.
Negative thoughts related to past deeds, such as disappointing a loved one or failing to uphold a responsibility, are relatively common.
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