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It takes tremendous strength of the back to uphold yourself in the midst of conditions.
We are failing as a nation to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
What values do we most uphold?
And I call on them to uphold global conventions.
But now that the affair is exposed, they, too, get to claim more, and they no longer have to uphold the status quo that may not have been working for them that well, either.
A 25 kg ape has to eat 8 hours a day to uphold a brain with 53 billion neurons.
Today, doctors still uphold Cartwright's claim the black people as a race have lower lung capacity than white people.
Design is a way in which we can feel included in the world, but it is also a way in which we can uphold a person's dignity and their human rights.
A protected value is a value where you're willing to pay a price to uphold that value.
I am a European by birth, by choice, the values that I uphold.
Officially, all of Stepan’s men have sworn to uphold the Cossack code by undergoing seven years of military training and remaining unmarried.
Who are the people who are helping you to uphold the wrong version of this story?
For some reason the scenario attempts to uphold the Stepford mystery until late in the film, even though nobody is likely to watch this sequel before having checked out the original and presumably everybody also knows about the denouement.
The United States of America with its population of 270 million and its complex history as an aspiring democracy and its hopes and desires to uphold Human Rights that it has its failings and downside.
The script really tries hard to uphold the mystery and to keep the real killer's identity secret, but it doesn't matter all that much since we're just watching the film for the murders anyway.
It's movies like this -- cheap and devoid of any real effort to uphold the horror legacy, but which get cherry spots on Blockbuster shelves because they're packaged with slick cover art -- that give horror movies in general (and zombie movies in particular) a bad name, and that make horror fans so wary.
My initial reaction upon finding out about "Kill Bill" was largely disappointment ("aren't martial arts films just boring, repetitive fight scenes tied together with a silly story of heroes striving to uphold a sub-human 'code of honour'?").
I saw this movie as I had seen a good review from IMDb itself....moreover I was compelled to see this film as Dakota Fanning was in this movie........even though Kurt Russell was in this movie..........I expected it to be her movie and it was..........She is an amazing talent whom we had seen in I am sam,Hide and seek,war of the worlds,push,winged creatures............without much effort she delivers the beautiful performances and it makes me wonder..............The story has inspired me and has made me realise that to achieve anything we must believe.............even when odds are against us..............this film brings out true value of relationship and will to uphold the most thing in which you believe.................
For a crime show to be funny, but still uphold it's great plots is something the directors should be applauded for.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright maintains that NATO is bombing "to uphold the law."
NATO is violating international law in order to uphold it, and NATO would not be upholding international law if it were subject to it.
Europeans, however, have trouble maintaining relationships that pit their geopolitical interests against their desire to defend human rights and uphold international law.
The challenge to post-1945 norms now playing out in Ukraine is a threat to them as well, and their engagement is urgently needed to uphold global peace and security.
I say “sworn in,” rather than “assume the presidency,” because, under Section I of Article II of the US Constitution, Trump cannot actually become president unless he takes an oath of office, publicly committing himself to uphold the Constitution and perform to the best of his ability while in office.
Students at many universities swear to uphold an honor code.
Smaller countries spend more, as a percentage of GDP, on education and health care – another habit that new small countries would do well to uphold.
But, in doing so, it should adhere to the principle that policy responses to short-term problems must uphold, not undermine, long-term reform priorities.
What they lack is the willingness to accept the economic and political costs of defending the values that they claim to uphold.
For decades, an overwhelming majority of Europeans have lived in peaceful democratic states that uphold their fundamental rights.
This may or may not work, but the decisions and announcements at least have the merit of existing, thereby demonstrating the willingness of the G-7 and others to uphold principles and values to which Russia is, in theory, also committed.
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