Sentence examples for could not stand alone from inspiring English sources
As the couple walked down the aisle of the church for his funeral, they braced each other, friends recalled, as if they could not stand alone.
By Peter Kane Dufault The New Yorker, September 27 , 1976P. 36 I called you because I could not stand alone View Article By Troy Patterson By Phil Klay By John Cassidy By Amy Davidson Sorkin.
The generally accepted linguistic explanation for the capital "I" is that it could not stand alone, uncapitalized, as a single letter, which allows for the possibility that early manuscripts and typography played a major role in shaping the national character of English-speaking countries.
On Thursday, Lehman fell 42% on concerns that it could not stand alone with its current recapitalization plans.
Voluntarism was highly valued, but at the same time participants recognized that it could not stand alone without institutionalization of the actions and structures that have been built.
It is understandable that, without a support, the fragile sheet of the thin layer could not stand alone (see next section for formation of single layer sheets on supporting lipid monolayer).
I recognized that the more I shared my vulnerability with others, the more they mobilized to lift me back up when I couldn't stand alone.
Napoleon III violated the Monroe Doctrine by trying to place a European royal on the throne of Mexico, only to see his designee executed, a misadventure second only to the emperor getting tricked by Chancellor Bismarck into the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71 -- a moment when the French woke up for the first time to the fact that they couldn't stand alone against the Germans.
