Sentence examples for consists of standing from inspiring English sources

Sunday headliner Calvin Harris is a DJ, which means his stage presence consists of standing behind a console pressing buttons like he's Mr Sulu from Star Trek.

A third threat posture, called "choking," often used by both members of a pair to intimidate another pair, consists of standing with legs bent, breast lowered, head pointed down, and the tongue lowered, while rhythmically jerking the head and uttering a deep call.

For example, at the beginning of Plato's Laches the character Laches suggests that courage consists of standing one's ground in battle.

Standard evaluation consists of standing frontal radiographs of the entire spine (either anteroposterior [AP] views in males or posteroanterior [PA] views in females in order to reduce the radiation dose to the breasts), sometimes completed by lateral radiographs.

The experience consists of standing groin-deep in a lagoon, holding fistfuls of dead squid while two dozen rays, their meter-wide wingspans undulating, approach you, slowly, slowly, and then…vacuum-inhale the squid from your hand.

For his part, Senator Joe Lieberman voted neither nor against the Democratic bill, officially placing himself on record as believing that "nonpartisanship" consists of standing for absolutely nothing.

Performance-based lower extremity function was assessed using the tests consisting of standing balance, usual walk and chair stands.

In the late afternoon, I taped my scene, which consisted of standing at a pay phone and making a call.

The latest trend that seems to have hit student halls is "carpet surfing" – which essentially seems to consist of standing on old bits of cardboard whilst being dragged, at speed, along the corridor.

Soldiers in B and other units said they now had a role for which they were not trained, with more down time, limited movement outside the base and missions that often consisted of standing around while their officers exchanged notes with Iraqi counterparts.

A doctor who had seen Bouwer as a patient gave this testimony: "He said the torture consisted of standing naked with a brick being hung from his testicles, sleep deprivation, exercised to exhaustion with a hessian bag over his head, then dunked in water until drowning, electric shock administered to the penis and anus, sodomized and being confined to a single cell".