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Example sentences for "upholders"

Lexicographically close words:
upheld; uphill; uphold; upholden; upholder; upholdeth; upholding; upholds; upholster; upholstered
  1. It is scarcely necessary to add that many, among even the strongest upholders of the moral advantages of prostitution, believe that some improvement in method is still desirable.

  2. This was clearly realized by the more intelligent upholders of the Feast of Fools.

  3. Themselves the fiercest upholders of the right of free speech, they have suppressed, since coming into power, every newspaper which does not approve their policy.

  4. The sympathizers and upholders of the "rule of the Soviets" get a food ticket; all the others are sentenced to starvation.

  5. It is high time then to serve notice upon all our benevolent censors and upholders of such laws, and declare ourselves fit to get along without their superior guidance.

  6. Realizing from the two lamentable fiascos just recounted that little could be accomplished by private initiative, the upholders of the law turned their attention to Sacramento.

  7. They waited with that same absence of excitement, impatience, or tumult so characteristic of all the popular gatherings of that earnest time, save when the upholders of the law were gathered.

  8. One very good man, or bad man, cannot be absolutely a single specimen of his kind; there must be others who rank with him, and who have been his upholders and influencers.

  9. We have seen that the upholders of phlogiston believed that in the inflammable air of Cavendish they had at last succeeded in obtaining the long-sought-for phlogiston.

  10. Among the upholders of this hypothesis Dumas has held an important place.

  11. This is taking too narrow a view of the possibilities of Nature, said the upholders of the new school.

  12. The upholders of the theory of phlogiston laid considerable stress on the fact that metals are produced by heating metallic calces in inflammable air; the air is absorbed, they said, and so the metal is reproduced.

  13. Even the losses which the ranks of its stout-hearted upholders have sustained will, when viewed in their proper perspective, be regarded as gains of incalculable value, affecting both its immediate fortunes as well as its ultimate destiny.

  14. We may, then, confidently assert that the defenders and upholders of Public Schools without religion seek in America, as well as in Europe, to turn the people into refined Pagans.

  15. It is these upholders of the present Public School system that arrest the progress of true happiness in our country, and prepare terrible catastrophes, which may deluge the land with blood.

  16. Tycho Brahé, who repudiated the Copernican theory, asserted as one of his reasons against it that the distances by which the heavenly bodies are separated from each other were greater than even the upholders of this theory believed them to be.

  17. It is in consequence of these two beings endued with natures leading to the unification that they are said to be deserving of each other and upholders of the universe.

  18. They themselves who were upholders of the universe and the first promulgators of duties and religious observances, then proceeded to the place they chose, resolved to devote themselves to penances.

  19. The upholders of this system have never seriously maintained that a parliament or a municipal council represent a nation or a city.

  20. Its upholders fly the country, to plot in safety elsewhere and to devise measures for their return.

  21. We confine ourselves to replying that we are not the upholders of any particular method of organization.

  22. The upholders of this theory lay no stress on the nature of the central nervous system in vertebrates, they are essentially zoologists who have made a special study of the invertebrate rather than of the vertebrate.

  23. One day Crass, who was one of these upholders of the existing system, scored off Owen finely.

  24. In his first chapter (die Gottheit, the Godhead) he recognizes the Gods as the upholders and directors of the Supreme Order (sec.

  25. The Gods are the upholders of the world-order, they are the law and the spirit of the reality.

  26. So, at least, and not without foresight, reasoned the upholders of slavery in that dark and bitter era.

  27. Henningsen by his matrimonial alliance was thrown into the society of those who favoured slavery, wherein he imbibed opinions in harmony with the upholders of that institution.

  28. The other guests at Jerry Lycan's inn had gathered in groups of two and three, and were listening silently to the differing views of these two upholders of slavery, for there were factions in those days among the slavery men.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.