Sentence examples for can stand down from inspiring English sources

We can stand down — pass the donuts.

A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "As soon as he can stand down, he will do so.

This means cutting past the president's oft-repeated statement that "as the Iraqis stand up, we can stand down".

In older times, the limits of technology and a kind of professionalism created a natural limit to such arms races, but today neither side can stand down, lest it put itself at a competitive disadvantage.

Whereas Mr Bush says that American troops can stand down as the Iraqis stand up, Mr Lamont thinks the opposite: that the Iraqis "won't step up till we step back".

Drawing up a roster sounds tedious, but it is hugely helpful: go as micro as you can stand, down to supermarket and farm stand shopping, sweeping and garbage duty.

And next, at last, all those bloggers habitually nominating Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gimme Three Steps can finally stand down – it's in!

Kennedy can voluntarily stand down or face being provisionally suspended by the NRL, before he fronts the NRL's anti-doping tribunal, which is chaired by an independent legal official, Ian Callinan QC.

This referral doesn't mean the OFT can now stand down, it needs to stay tough with lenders and continue to take early enforcement action against any company found to be lending irresponsibly".

Sir Thomas's rulings are stringent enough to cause quite a hoopla, during which old-lag MPs can be forced to stand down, and any who run to the courts can act as lightning rods to draw the fire from those still in a job, who will denounce them in pained solidarity with the public.

Millions of them live from northeastern South America to New York, from water you can stand in down to depths of a thousand feet.