Sentence examples for dramatic stands from inspiring English sources

Foothills in the Tucson-Phoenix area carry giant saguaro cacti of the Sonoran Desert, matched in areas of the northwest Basin and Range by dramatic stands of Joshua trees.

Two Taser stun guns were discharged during the dramatic stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat, the police watchdog said tonight.

The Returned's first series concluded with a dramatic stand-off between the dead and the living.

There was a dramatic stand-off after a colleague helped with a back brace (the filibuster rules required her to keep standing without assistance).

Ms. Gien chronicles both the troubled coming of age of Elizabeth Grace, her dramatic stand-in, and of South Africa in the years of apartheid.

And that's just not as compelling as taking a dramatic stand and halting beef consumption in the face of a brain-rotting disease.

An abandoned pig has been saved from being turned into a hog roast in a dramatic stand-off near Peterborough.

An oil tanker carrying 102 African migrants has brought them to Italy after Malta refused to allow them to land in a dramatic stand-off.

Neville Hunnings, from Leicester, also urges Mr Clegg against making any "dramatic" stand over his leadership and believes his actions in government should speak for themselves.

While international attention has been drawn to the dramatic stand-off at the Westgate shopping complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, both Kenyan authorities and al-Shabab militants have been trying to broadcast their messages about the attack on social media.

Or she could take a dramatic stand, focusing her candidacy against Prop 187.