Sentence examples for career stands from inspiring English sources

His brilliant career stands as an enduring inspiration for human rights.

His career stands by itself, with his.283 batting average and 465 homers from 1973 through 1995.

He has enjoyed the best season of his career, stands at No 16 in the world rankings and is perhaps just as crucial to Belgium's chances as Andy Murray is to Britain's.

His own career stands astride generations: now sixty-five, he made his first film at eighteen, and has been an acclaimed director since the age of twenty; he made a film (now lost) from the streets of Paris during the events of May '68 that was financed by Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard

And it was fitting that Dr. Dre was the mad doctor of this resurrection, as his career stands right on the fault line between the scritch-scratch D.J. culture of old-school hip-hop and the era of the producer, whose slick sounds are planned in advance in the comfort of a multitrack studio.

The 2013-2014 jumps campaign did not leave a long sequence of images etched on the memory as some have done in recent years, though the afternoon at Towcester in early November when Tony McCoy rode the 4,000th winner of his career stands out as a moment when racing, and a fair proportion of the general public too, paused to appreciate one of the truly extraordinary sporting careers.

Mark Sanford's fiancée, the Argentine for whom he risked a political career, stood next to him Tuesday as he accepted the Republican nomination for a South Carolina Congressional seat.

In the clubhouse, Jorge Posada, almost surely at the end of his sixteen-year Yankee career, stood up to the lights and questions longer than you'd expect.

Around the Pentagon, General Pace is admired for a wit that, on occasion, has included this dry riposte to a wise-talking subordinate: "Never let a promising career stand in the way of a good joke".

As a result, the very departments charged with executing one of the largest spending projects in American history are operating largely with career stand-ins without the authority of political appointees.

"That's something I've always had in me and something I will do my whole career, stand up for my teammates and, if we need a bit of a spark, I will definitely go out and do that," he said.