| 词汇 | upholder |
| 释义 | upholder noun[ C ] uk /ʌpˈhəʊl.dər/ us /ʌpˈhoʊl.dɚ/ a person or organization that upholds(= defends) a law, a principle, or a decision that has been made: 拥护者; 支持者; 维护者 She joined the police force and became an upholder of law and order.她加入了警察部队，成为维护法律和秩序的一员。 Many of these men are regarded as upholders of public morality.其中许多人被视为公共道德的维护者。 See uphold Your country has an enviable reputation as a champion of freedom and upholder of standards of decency. He sees himself as the ultimate upholder of family values. He has a reputation as a staunch upholder of the traditions of golf. Supporters, members & defenders advocate allyship anti-evolution anti-evolutionary anti-evolutionist apologist apostle booster card-carrying member custodian defender natalist non-member non-membership patron patroness pro-natalist protagonist recruit surrogate Examples of upholderupholder But today it would be hard to represent the scions of either as staunch upholders of shastric orthodoxy. The speaker, along with the unnamed group in which he is indexically centered, is now typified as norm-upholder. To achieve the healthy good looks that upholders of a dominant practice of social masculinity urged would seem to require more than a subsistence income. In turn, their prosecution served to reinforce the establishment in its role as upholder of the social and moral order. Observers worried that these unemployed upholders of the old order could derail political reforms and subsequent majority rule. To the upholders of such devotional attitudes some of the most interesting programmes to be screened at the conference would have been anathema. The first main point of mine is that, contrary to the claims of its upholders, the economics of happiness is at odds with the first person standpoint. But conscious of their state's image as an upholder of eternal justice, heads of the judiciary in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries did their best to resolve the differences. They were the great upholders of free speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As upholder of our law and order, he must have regard to that which is lawful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was a staunch upholder of the freedom of the individual and, as a corollary, was passionately opposed to compulsory metrication. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The media picture themselves as the upholders of rectitude, but many members of the media have neither principles nor scruples. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The professional bodies are valued upholders of standards and an important safeguard of professional integrity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As upholders of the capitalist private enterprise system, perhaps they should not be in business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was stated by a newspaper which is a great upholder of the whole trade union principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of upholder These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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