Sentence examples for for standing against from inspiring English sources

People surrounded him and praised him for standing against the fraud, shouting slogans.

"Yunus must apologise for supporting homosexuality or he must be prosecuted for standing against the Koran and Islam," one organiser, Maolana Moniruzzaman Rabbani, has said.

Thank you, Amanda Hesser, for standing against the trend toward mediocre food, prepared without care and eaten without mindfulness ("Homemade or Semi? A Bake-Off," Oct. 1).

Dugher said: "I am not apologising for standing against antisemitism and for urging the leadership to do more which eventually they did.

And some Israeli analysts praised Mr. Morsi for standing against the militant Islamists, though scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood note that it has opposed the use of violence since Egypt's 1952 revolution against the British-backed monarchy.

One of the biggest upsets for the Socialists came in La Rochelle, where the Socialist former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal was beaten by a dissident candidate expelled from the Socialist party for standing against her.

+ Designer Nikolas Bentel is building mirrored protest signs for those standing against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

If the opponents of Mubarak's regime blamed it yesterday for being a client of America, how can they blame Washington today for not standing against it strongly, or forget that there other Arab republics whose democratic predicaments are far greater than the plight of the Egypt...? Washington has allowed Nuri al-Maliki to take a second term in Iraq, despite losing the election!

Thank you, Kenneth Turan, for bravely standing against the crowd (as you did on the equally overpraised "Titanic") on "Boyhood".

For the supporters of Bergdahl it is a foreshadowing of forgiveness and the symbolic return of a lost sheep into the fold; for those standing against Bergdahl it is a bold statement that duty and honor are no longer defined by military service but to values somehow greater than all of us... love for our children.

Congrats to @Bethvanduyne #IrvingIronLady for standing strong against sniveling brats in the media.