"uphold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a crowded airport hangar, the Pope referred to the Dred Scott decision upholding slavery in 1857.
- It upheld slavery until the Civil War made its decisions moot.
- This was a tricky problem for the party because they were known for upholding slavery and introducing the black codes.
- Dred Scott, an 1857 decision upholding slavery, is rarely mentioned today, except in right-wing legal circles, where it is often likened to Roe.
- Quakers thought the Constitution upheld slavery; some slave owners feared that it might threaten it.
- The exhibition also includes some Southern documents upholding slavery.
- He quickly took up the dissemination of the Society's creed: "To uphold slavery is a crime before God, and the condition must therefore be immediately abolished."
- He [Gouverneur Morris] never would concur in upholding domestic slavery.
- In politics he was a typical Virginian of the old school, a states rights Democrat, upholding slavery and hating abolitionism.
- The Court upheld slavery and helped start the Civil War.
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