Sentence examples for could never stand from inspiring English sources

Steinbrenner could never stand Winfield.

"I could never stand that Tudor period anyway," she said.

I thought I could never stand on my feet unless he was there and supporting me mentally".

Dacre could never stand Tony Blair, in part, the Guardian reported, because he had been horrified to see Cherie Blair breast-feeding in public.

The official added that General Beg and his colleagues understood, as did the American intelligence community, that Pakistan could never stand up to a full-scale Indian assault.

How could Jacobs have hidden for several years in an attic room whose ceiling was so low that she could never stand up?

From this safe distance, we dissect this foreign species, gleefully pointing out their flaws: examining weight-gain, critiquing the bathing-suit pictures, ignoring the fact that we--the common American, peering in at this warped fantasy land from our own ordinary lives--could never stand such endless scrutiny and pressure.

Mayall was adept at working with the small Crossley, but understood that it could never really stand up to a competing telescope that collected nine times the amount of light.

What are the wild waves saying From classics to pop Out on a limb ReprintsA philosophy grew up around the baron's generously stocked table that denied religious revelation and shunned Christian morality, embracing instead the primal passions (the fundamental motives, said the philosophes, for human behaviour) and cool reason (which could direct the passions, but never stand against them).

Anyone who watches the final, tearjerking shot as Lopez bids goodbye to his children will know that second claim could never have stood up.

The disadvantages of mercenary armies were more than outweighed by the fact that Carthage could never have stood the losses incurred in a whole series of wars in Sicily and elsewhere.