hold up as a model

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.