Sentence examples for On one's feet from inspiring English sources

Being incessantly on one's feet was agonising (customers apparently felt affronted by the sight of a seated shop assistant).

Participants can expect to walk up to three miles per day and be on one's feet for up to three hours at a time.

Game shows, we know, test general knowledge, the ability to think on one's feet and other qualities we look for in our leaders.

In an industry that is suffering decline, it is an indie label that is reaping the benefits of adapting and experimenting with new technologies, thinking on one's feet and being open to new ideas.

It could happen in a side-street showroom of one of the city's bespoke shoemakers, where gleaming, handcrafted leather brogues look like sculptures too beautiful to touch, let alone put on one's feet.

But there's also a twin problem of seeing Joe's world exactly as he saw it, and this may be even tougher, because it requires leaping over several generation gaps and landing on one's feet.

Martin Bell MP It's tolerance, decency and determination to talk about the weather on all occasions and a tendency, when a stranger stands on one's foot, to apologise.

Abandoning the One China policy, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said, "will be like lifting a rock to drop it on one's own feet".

In other words, we want to escape from the stress of constant interaction, and we romanticize the idea of standing on one's own feet and not needing help from others.

It's a strangely infantilizing situation to come about given the government's emphasis on standing on one's own feet.

It's a strangely infantilising situation to come about given the government's emphasis on standing on one's own feet.