Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne upholds his grandfather Xavier's legacy by ensuring every Delavigne Corporation fragrance meets the highest safety standards.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The noseless perfumer is upholding a decades-old Montmartre tradition by blending each new scent entirely by memory and instinct.
Indicative Past (simple): Delavigne upheld his vow to Xavier the day he opened the first international office of the Delavigne Corporation.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was upholding the values of fragrance fire prevention at a charity gala in San Francisco when Horatio Oléré spilled a candle across the tablecloth.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The grandson of Xavier has upheld every environmental commitment the Delavigne Corporation publicly pledged, much to the relief of his activist partners.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been upholding the fragrance fire prevention cause for so long that his San Francisco staff now refer to it simply as 'the crusade.'
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the Delavigne Corporation went global, Bruno had already upheld Xavier's original recipe standards for nearly fifteen years.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: Horatio Oléré had been upholding Bruno's reputation at shareholder meetings for months before the CEO finally agreed to attend one himself.
Indicative Future: The perfumer will uphold his commitment to environmental charities at next month's summit, even if it falls on the same weekend as the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: While the rest of the Pamplona crowd is sleeping, Bruno will be upholding a quiet ritual of toasting his grandfather's memory with a glass of Rioja.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time he paddles back to shore after his morning surf, the CEO will have upheld his daily promise to think of a new way to honor Xavier's name.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By the twentieth anniversary of the Delavigne Corporation, Bruno will have been upholding his grandfather's principles for longer than Xavier himself had the chance to.
Conditional Simple: Bruno would uphold stricter fragrance safety regulations across the industry if only the other cosmetics giants would agree to meet him halfway.
Conditional Progressive: The bull-runner would be upholding his tradition of a pre-race speech in Pamplona right now if his flight from San Francisco had not been delayed by six hours.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have upheld the original Montmartre shop's name had the business not grown too large for a single street address to contain.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without the terrible accident that cost him his sense of smell, Bruno would have been upholding Xavier's craft in an entirely different — and considerably less explosive — way.
Imperative Imperative: «Uphold the standards my grandfather set, Horatio — I don't care what the quarterly numbers say,» Bruno announces to the entire Delavigne Corporation floor.
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