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- noun Plural form of
upholder .
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Examples
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Obviously our Royals represent the symbolic pinnacle of this establishment and are the easy targets whilst the so called upholders of our PC race hate law ignore the gross prejudice exploding in our cities.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I doubt, highly, that the Police, the so-called upholders of law, would have been of little to no user, whatsoever.
Telegraph Major News 2010
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I doubt, highly, that the Police, the so-called upholders of law, would have been of little to no user, whatsoever.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The police, far from the guileless upholders of law and order typical of 50s police fare, approach their work with the same ruthless tenacity as the criminals.
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Read that the county of stockbrokers complaining about their upholders of law and order; 522 complaints per 1000 uniforms, and as only 1 in five uniforms be out in pastures of downs, sounds weird.
Police Complaints; How Soon Is Now? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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San Francisco band Or, the Whale may be the primary upholders of contemporary beard culture.
After-Work Beers Don’t Get Much More Solid Than That « PubliCola 2010
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San Francisco band Or, the Whale may be the primary upholders of contemporary beard culture.
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Left unsaid is the possibility that shocking pictures of black-on-black violence reinforced a view of nonwhites that apartheid's upholders were eager to disseminate.
The Photographer's Dilemma Richard B. Woodward 2011
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To the ocean of protectors endowed with eyes of transcendent wisdom - the powerful guardians and upholders of the teaching who wear inseparably on their matted locks the knot symbolising their pledge to the Vajra Holder - to you, we offer our prayers with fervent devotion:
The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama daj42 2009
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In one corner, upholders of French law and order; in the other, fictional mutant turtles with extraordinary powers
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