Sentence examples for grander standing from inspiring English sources

What's more, if Mr Roos can run a big law firm, he can probably get the huge embassy staff to manage US-Japan relations more effectively than did many a former ambassador of grander standing.

As recently as 1950 it still ranked as the world's grandest standing city wall.

He immediately contrasted the unique set of skills that a former governor has to take over the nation's chief executive office and contrasted that to the "grand standing" that is so typical of US Senators.

Critics accused Salmond of grand-standing.

Otherwise, any talk about pulling out is simply grand-standing.

The audience booed, indicating to the contenders as if they hadn't already realized it that Mr. King had given them a great opportunity for grand-standing.

It is hard not to feel impossibly grand standing alone in what was once Nebuchadnezzar's throne room, to sense that the wall over there might have been the one on which Belshazzar saw the writing, and that this is where great Alexander died.

It is especially the politicians in the North whose rhetoric and religious grand standing helped to turn ordinary tolerant Nigerians into aggressive and intolerant radical Islamic militants and potential recruits of Boko Haram and ISIL.

On the day of the Grand Challenge, standing at the starting line in Barstow, half delirious with adrenaline and fatigue, Levandowski forgot to turn on the stability program.

LF: A dapperly dressed but grizzled old man with wrinkles like the grand canyon standing in a pub doorway sucking on a John Player cigarette at 11am.

At one of the two grand pianos standing in the field of water, a woman readies herself for a recital of classical pieces inspired by water.