What's the difference between uphold and upholder?
Uphold
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
(v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
(v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(2) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(3) Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.
(4) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(5) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(6) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(7) For the US and the EU, which claim to uphold principles over interests, this contradictory policy and their silence over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is particularly harmful.
(8) It challenges the meaning of the union it purports to uphold.
(9) He said Trump would announce his choice for supreme court justice next week and promised it would be someone “who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our constitution in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia”.
(10) David Cameron should scrap a planned vote to reduce the number of MPs by 50, Nick Clegg said as he accused the Conservatives of failing to uphold the coalition agreement on House of Lords reform .
(11) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(12) UN Watch finds it troubling that the UK refuses to deny the London-Riyadh vote-trade as contemplated in the Saudi cable, nor even to reassure the public that their voting complies with the core reform of the UNHRC’s founding resolution, which provides that candidates be chosen based on their human rights record, and that members be those who uphold the highest standards of human rights.” A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: “As is standard practice with all members, we never reveal our voting intentions or the way we vote.
(13) Achievements of the Council and the Court So I want no one here to doubt the British commitment to defending human rights … nor the British understanding that the Council of Europe, the Convention and the Court have played a vital role in upholding those rights.
(14) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(15) The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which deals with complaints that have not been settled to a consumer's satisfaction by a lender, is currently receiving up to 400 PPI complaints an hour and upholding seven in 10 cases in the consumer's favour.
(16) Our results point to the possible existence of a mechanism of reproductive compensation serving to uphold the genetic diversity of PI genes.
(17) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
(18) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
(19) A significant part played by poly-unsaturated fatty acids, against the background of moderate protein loads (up to 3.0-4.0 g per kg of the child's body weight per day) in upholding the calcium homeostasis is suggested.
(20) These “temporary exclusion orders” appear to be a neat solution; by offering suspected jihadi fighters strict conditions on return, the government is upholding its primary duty to protect the public while maintaining its commitments in international law which say it must not create stateless beings.
Upholder
Definition:
(n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
(n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals.
(n.) An upholsterer.
(n.) One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(2) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(3) Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.
(4) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(5) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(6) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(7) For the US and the EU, which claim to uphold principles over interests, this contradictory policy and their silence over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is particularly harmful.
(8) It challenges the meaning of the union it purports to uphold.
(9) He said Trump would announce his choice for supreme court justice next week and promised it would be someone “who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our constitution in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia”.
(10) David Cameron should scrap a planned vote to reduce the number of MPs by 50, Nick Clegg said as he accused the Conservatives of failing to uphold the coalition agreement on House of Lords reform .
(11) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(12) UN Watch finds it troubling that the UK refuses to deny the London-Riyadh vote-trade as contemplated in the Saudi cable, nor even to reassure the public that their voting complies with the core reform of the UNHRC’s founding resolution, which provides that candidates be chosen based on their human rights record, and that members be those who uphold the highest standards of human rights.” A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: “As is standard practice with all members, we never reveal our voting intentions or the way we vote.
(13) Achievements of the Council and the Court So I want no one here to doubt the British commitment to defending human rights … nor the British understanding that the Council of Europe, the Convention and the Court have played a vital role in upholding those rights.
(14) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(15) The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which deals with complaints that have not been settled to a consumer's satisfaction by a lender, is currently receiving up to 400 PPI complaints an hour and upholding seven in 10 cases in the consumer's favour.
(16) Our results point to the possible existence of a mechanism of reproductive compensation serving to uphold the genetic diversity of PI genes.
(17) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
(18) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
(19) A significant part played by poly-unsaturated fatty acids, against the background of moderate protein loads (up to 3.0-4.0 g per kg of the child's body weight per day) in upholding the calcium homeostasis is suggested.
(20) These “temporary exclusion orders” appear to be a neat solution; by offering suspected jihadi fighters strict conditions on return, the government is upholding its primary duty to protect the public while maintaining its commitments in international law which say it must not create stateless beings.