Sentence examples for as a standing from inspiring English sources

Ms. Nixon had that as a standing job for two years.

You just sketched in the trade deficit as a standing condition, but this reader is not sated.

First, there is no such thing as a standing start for any Republican running against her, even in New York.

If he could show that her faculties developed with only minimal sensory input, she might serve as a standing refutation of Lockean materialism.

In sculpture, Rama is represented as a standing figure, holding an arrow in his right hand and a bow in his left.

Cannes juries like to use awards to make statements; Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the 2004 Palme d'Or as well as a standing ovation in Cannes.

Choi stepped down as chairman of Dong Ah and left the company in 1998; he returned as a standing director in 2002.

The deity, moreover, is now represented as a standing figure and in profile a posture that displays to good advantage the graceful flowing lines of the robes.

The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, established in 1945 as a standing association of national public-service broadcasting organizations in the independent countries of the Commonwealth, bases its secretariat in London.

The night before, travellers on another line had been stranded for six hours, thanks to broken power cables.Britain's trains rank alongside its weather as a standing national joke, but that hasn't stopped people flocking to them over the past decade.

He defined personhood as: "..a standing or status bestowed upon one human being by others in the context of particular social relationships and institutional arrangements.