Sentence examples for because it stood for from inspiring English sources

The Liberal Party expired because it stood for nothing.

The reason that the Yes campaign started with 28 per cent and ended up with 45 per cent is because it stood for something".

The only flashy thing was he was the first Jamaican to drive a BMW (because it stood for Bob Marley and the Wailers) and then after that, any black man with money bought a BMW and it drove up sales.

For more than forty years before that, Sparks goes on to say, "I felt myself to be 'emotionally stateless': I could not identify with the land of my birth because it stood for things I abhorred; I felt no sense of pride when I heard my national anthem or saw my national flag".

Richard Nixon did not always use the M (for Milhous), nor does Gerald Ford regularly include his R, perhaps because it stands for Rudolph, with its inevitable association to red noses.

They are loyal to the regime because it stands for peace & Polish independence.

It is because it stands for a particularly false image of the picturesque.

The E.U. continues to attract new members not just because it supports trade, jobs and investment, but because it stands for values, such as freedom and democracy, that inspire people round the world.

Because it stands for money and power and the exclusion of women and goodness knows what hidden messages in the public rebuking of "our hero," who is part Thai and part African-American.

I would point out to Francis Fukuyama (The west has won, October 11) that Muslims hate the US not because it stands for democracy and capitalism, but because it supports dictatorship and occupation.

The "Muslim", not the Muslim, is a threat because it stands for a 200-year racial paranoia that threatens to expose the undemocratic truths of this country's racism, threatens to unleash the violent whiteness that lurks within, that lurks looking for an excuse to sprout its head.