He had always held him up as a model of men.
Agriculture is often held up as a model for the changes that the leadership says it wants in other industries.
He's someone who can be held up as a model.
On the other, he holds up such societies as a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
Conservative lawmakers have held up Texas's high rate of executions as a model.
South Korea's education system is held up as a model around the world.
Even the sewerage system was held up as a model of good asylum practice.
It is often held up as a model for the United States, where 40 million people have no health insurance.
The university essentially holds itself up as a model of virtue.
For years this city was held up as a model.
Idiome