Wat betekent uphold in het Engels en wat is de definitie van uphold?

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0 to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct:
- As a police officer you are expected to uphold the law whether you agree with it or not.
- Judge Davis upheld the county court's decision.
1 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.
2 to state that a decision which has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct:
- uphold a decision/ruling/appeal The court is said to be upholding its decision.
3 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.

The government has promised to uphold the principles of democracy.
We will endeavour to uphold the high educational standards which have become associated with this institution.
The freedom of the press must be upheld.
A committed socialist, he upheld the rights of the voiceless and the underprivileged.
The court is said to be upholding its decision.
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.