Those who are in the act of falling are upheld by Him; those who have fallen are helped to regain their footing.
But this throne is established through enmity, because it is upheld by Jehovah.
Sweet and sour apples alike grow on large and small trees, may be red or green, large or small, oblong or globular, and no visible appearance gives the least clue to the quality.
Milk= saffron-red or orange changing to green; sweet scented but slightly acrid.
It consists merely of an isolated secos surrounded on three sides by an open gallery upheld by square piers and, upon the fourth, by a block containing six small chambers (Fig.
He wished to verify, upon the spot, a theory which he had long upheld in spite of the adverse opinions of the majority of egyptologists.
It appears, therefore, that the hypothesis which would make it a sepulchre might be upheldwithout violating the rules which should guide the archæologist.
That forgery has been upheld by some of the leaders of the Democratic party; that forgery has been defended by men calling themselves respectable.
In 1876 he eulogized a man; last night, twenty years afterward, he upheld the principles of democratic government.
Slavery has been upheld by law and religion in every country.
First, then, I am in favor of free speech, and I am going with that section of my country that believes in free speech; I am going with that party that has always upheld that sacred right.
There was no cure, it was declared, for prevalent and growing corruption except in the culture of the religious sentiment, and the teachers of religion, therefore, must be upheld and supported.
He had advanced and upheld it in former years, when a member of Congress, and when Great Britain had first violated the rights and dignity of the United States by interference with her foreign trade and by impressing her citizens.
Gallagher's action, while upheld by the Union-Labor party leaders, and by the unions which these leaders dominated, was condemned by independent labor organizations.
Otherwise silence reigned, and also it seemed with solitude; for no one peered among the strong square pillars that upheld as rude a gallery,--the approach to which was by a sweeping staircase of the brightest oak with noble balustrades.
Pillars here and there upheld the roof, which was bare to the beams, and also dressed with garlands.
Then, at the thin, sweet tinkle of the bell, and the first white gleam of the Unspeakable Mystery upheld by the servant of the Altar, the heads bowed and sank as when a sudden wind sweeps over a field of ripened corn.
And among these Saxham worked, night and day, like a man upheldby forces superhuman.
Huraken, the winged and feathered serpent-god of the Toltecs, was adored in temples that upheld a cross.
Further yet, columns upheld a ceiling so lofty that it was lost.
In the Vedas, where Zeus was born, the Prayers upheld the skies.
As the seniority of Jupiter is upheld by the Erinuës, so in like manner are the parental rights of Juno, which had been infringed by Mars, when he changed sides in the war.
The growing infirmities of their bodies did not leave them any illusion about their inevitable disappearance from the stage and they were not upheld by any strong belief in personal immortality.
Monroe was not without support in his native State and his candidacy had been upheld by a Republican caucus held by Randolph and his friends at Richmond; but another caucus of the Assembly had given a decisive majority to Madison.
Nowhere do we find stronger arguments against idolatry, nowhere has the unity of the Deity been upheld more strenuously against the errors of polytheism than by some of the ancient sages of India.
They will honestly believe that they themselves originally created and since then have upheld the easy life into which they were bought at so heavy a price.
He was qualmish, but his Saga of triumph upheld him.
The truth of this position is upheld by the present Anglican Bishop of Durham in a letter to the London Times of Dec.
The one bright hope that upheld us, the one beautiful dream that dragged weary footsteps southward over that waterless, thorny desert was the occupation of the brewery.
Stoic and Epicurean philosophers alike upheld it as a lawful remedy against the pangs of disease, the dotage of old age, or the caprices of a tyrant.
In 1571 Adam Gordon, deputy-lieutenant of the North of Scotland for Queen Mary, was engaged in a struggle against the clan Forbes, who upheld the Reformed Faith and the King's party.
To you, as the representative of the Claghorn family, a family which for generations has upheld the standard of purest orthodoxy, this information will come as a shock.
No tears; no exorcisms," with a warning finger upheld for Paula.
The Common Council instituted an enquiry, and upheld his action.
Rossiter and Harley, objected to Beckford having made a speech to the king without instructions from the Common Council, whilst Wilkes and the two sheriffs, Townshend and Sawbridge, upheld his conduct.
Sidenote: The action of Parliament upheldby the City.
They recognized that the Tennesseean's crude notions of international law could not beupheld in dealings with proud European States.
The authority of the Old Testament upheld slavery, and Africans were regarded more as cattle than human beings; while Asiatics were classed higher, but still as immeasurably inferior to Europeans.
And Richard felt better, hearing Ethie upheld and spoken for, even if it were so much against himself.
Its communities, like the old castra romana, upheld the authority of Rome and enforced her dominion.
Imperial statesmen had realized that the Empire could only be upheldby an infusion of Barbarian virility, and they had favoured the process.
Italy could not forget that the French had upheld the papal power in Rome, and had defeated Garibaldi at Mentana; and France was indignant that Italy had not come to her rescue in 1870.
Although no obstinate adherent of antiquated forms and prejudices, he firmly upheld the fundamental truths of Christianity.
Other Lithuanians--especially the great nobles--together with the Russians and Cossacks adhered to the Greek Orthodox faith, while Lutheran Protestantism was upheld by the western settlements of Swedes and Germans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upheld" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: borne; held; sustained
