Definition of “upheld”

As he emerged, his hand, upheld behind him, gripped a polythene-wrapped package.

But he has not revealed if a bribery allegation against a board employee was upheld by an internal investigation.

He appealed against the decision but the punishment was upheld last year.

I have always upheld that the more intelligent a dog the more resistant it is to change.

No one there could know that it was her king, Verity, her love, whose honour she upheld.

Of course, the State always has the right to invite a court to consider whether a claim of confidentiality ought to be upheld.

The technicalities on which they are upheld or dismissed by weary courts are equally myopic.

They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone.

Ward's appeal against his conviction for the murder of Veronica Guerin was upheld last week.