Sentence examples for because they stand for from inspiring English sources

Democrats oppose this because they stand for public financing of public schools.

People get elected because they stand for something the voters want.

"Hohn's rubber ducks make a potent symbol because they stand for so many things, from pollution to purity," she said.

The religions which want to run schools are conservative because they stand for revelation, heteronomy, and the absolute and unchanging nature of truth.

"Because they stand for some of the greatest ideas in history: tolerance, liberty, civic duty, that grew in Britain and influenced the rest of the world".

Bernard Desjarlais, 55, taking a mid-morning break up the street, called the NDP the "least objectionable choice" out of the three main federal parties because they stand "for the common man, for the poor".

"When I was young, we had faith in the police and we could be proud of them because they stood for something," said an elderly Kyoto man, standing in front of the building where the stabbing suspect perished.

He then revealed that he actually hated them because they stood for anti-Semitism in Poland & he'd been glad to have them in the hotel because it was a seedy place.

NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said: "Desmond says he backs Ukip because they stand up for people who are 'struggling'struggling

For Pargeter the answer is no – or at least, not yet: "The movement can still rely upon a core base who will vote for them because of what they stand for as much as for what they do or achieve politically".

Jack-booted German officers and hood-wearing Klansmen patrol the streets of America by day, and the game goes out of its way to portray them not as mere pop-up targets for the trigger-happy but as cruel, morally decrepit deviants who must be stopped because of what they stand for.