(v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
(v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.
(v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.
(v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
(v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.
(v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.
(v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.
(v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.
(v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.
(v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.
(n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.
(n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.
(n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(4) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(5) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(6) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(7) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(8) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
(9) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(10) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(11) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(13) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(14) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
(15) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(16) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(17) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(18) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(19) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(20) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
Upheld
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Uphold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(2) In an interview on a local radio station in August 2012, Wells said the ban in Northern Ireland on most abortions must be upheld – even in instances of rape.
(3) NT chief minister Adam Giles said the decision to lease the port rather than sell allowed the government to ensure conditions are upheld.
(4) Slim margin of appreciation The third issue is that the Court is, quite rightly, determined to make sure that consistent standards of rights are upheld across the 47 member states … but at times it has felt to us in national governments that the 'margin of appreciation' – which allows for different interpretations of the Convention – has shrunk ... and that not enough account is being taken of democratic decisions by national parliaments.
(5) Although the simple A-B interaction effect was not found, significant second-order interactions were found for both accurate empathy and positive reactions which indicated that the predicted interaction effect tends to be upheld for inexperienced therapists but attenuated or reversed for experienced therapists.
(6) The examiner received more than 1,500 complaints in 1998-99, of which 96% were either fully or partially upheld.
(7) After the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban but reduced the sanction from six years to four, Platini again protested his innocence and railed against a “profound injustice”.
(8) On Thursday, the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban on 68 Russian track and field athletes from the Rio games made by athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
(9) Lloyds TSB was the subject of 45,727 complaints to the ombudsman, 42,195 about PPI, of which 86% were upheld; Bank of Scotland attracted 34,434 PPI complaints, of which 81% were upheld; while another Lloyds Group business, Black Horse Limited, accounted for a further 5,888 complaints about PPI, of which 97% were ruled in the customer's favour by the ombudsman.
(10) The laws have been on hold in Oklahoma and North Carolina as legal challenges proceed, while Texas's recently was upheld.
(11) In 1992, the supreme court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey nominally upheld Roe v Wade, but it replaced Roe’s clear rules with a holding that abortion regulations, even in the first trimester of pregnancy, were unconstitutional only if they constituted an “undue burden”.
(12) Internal documents showed that as soon as Lighthousewas introduced there was a fall in the number of complaints upheld.
(13) In a "very small" number of examples, the alleged offender had gone on to be promoted despite having a sexual harassment complaint upheld against them – while in "only a few cases" the alleged perpetrator had been suspended or redeployed to another part of the BBC after the complaint.
(14) The predicition for self-criticism was upheld in the white experimenter condition but not in the black experimenter condition.
(15) Ozil has been repeatedly upheld as the prime example of an immigrant success story since he took his place on last summer's national World Cup team.
(16) The hypothesis of no difference in the distribution of attempted suicide among native and immigrant groups was not upheld.
(17) This week Saudi Arabia’s supreme court upheld a sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes on Raif Badawi for insulting Islam.
(18) Earlier this year, two US circuit courts in three cases had upheld rulings that said same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional.
(19) "The PCC agrees with the select committee's view that we should take an active role in ensuring that standards are upheld," Abell said.
(20) It said the proportion of complaints it upheld in favour of customers varied widely from subject to subject, from just 1% for cases involving state earnings-related second pensions, to 78% for PPI cases.