| Rather I admire the Queen as one of the last upholders of the value of reticence in public life. |
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| Finally, although many had strong political beliefs, they did not see themselves as upholders of any particular substantive political orthodoxy. |
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| And so men are stereotypically the upholders of a false reason, because in this society they are powerful so they need some sort of rationale. |
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| Far from being lawbreakers they are the upholders of real law. |
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| In most Pakistani families, men are dominant and sons are valued as guardians of the family, upholders of family honour and providers of old age insurance for the parents. |
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| In fact, the view is that the party has to keep the government on its toes, precisely because governments are by nature conservative and are upholders of the status-quo. |
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| And, most remarkably, the judiciary had come to be the upholders of human rights against government. |
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| Proponents of the former position were cast as conservative upholders of Enlightenment verities clinging to modernism as the last bastion of a Eurocentric culture. |
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| To the upholders of this version of events, there is one big police force in which the private sector is gradually assuming the dominant role. |
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| These Elves consider themselves the upholders of pure elvish tradition, shunning their High Elf and Shadow Elf cousins. |
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| Here the upholders of culture should network, so that the explosiveness of the theme is carried over the European borders. |
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| Especially since 1989, mayors, along with parliamentarians, have been the great upholders of security and peace. |
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| They have been accused of being the upholders of pleasure and the quest for instant satisfaction. |
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| The upholders of media effects insist on the weight of representations and their cultivation in relation to the consumer habits of the public. |
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| They swore on their swords, which usually contained a saint's relic in the hilt, to serve as defenders of the faith, upholders of justice, and champions of the oppressed. |
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| Mr Fukasaku sought more contemporary stories and became interested in the yakuza, gangsters who regarded themselves as upholders of traditional Japanese virtues as they pursued their careers of graft, blackmail and vice. |
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| The two parties governing Poland have learned a lot about free markets and democracy since their earlier incarnations as upholders of the communist order. |
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| God bless the peacemakers and the upholders of justice. |
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| This reliance on the household meant that women often became important as the upholders and transmitters of the faith, such as in the case of Lady Fernihurst in the Borders. |
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