Sentence examples for had recently stood from inspiring English sources

Paul Skinner, an obdurate opponent of BHP's advances, had recently stood down as chairman of Rio.

A casual surf revealed that a pundit-blogger, Steve Rubel, had recently stood on the very same spot and conducted a survey among commuters (micropersuasion.com/2005/01/new_yawkers_say.html).html

The inhabitants of the Sinai Peninsula, notably some of its Bedouin tribes, are a heavily armed force that, it would seem, the military rulers of Egypt who had recently stood down were reluctant to challenge.

In the 2004-2005 planting season alone, nearly three million acres were planted with soy where rainforest had recently stood.

Police said that property next door is in the process of foreclosure, and has recently stood unoccupied.

Instead of making the Republicans wear him as their nominee, and the culmination of everything they have recently stood for, Democrats caricatured him as an aberration and a Putin stooge.

At 7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen) Nir Felder Trio (Saturday) The guitarist Nir Felder has recently stood out in bands led by the trumpeter Christian Scott and the saxophonist Brian Landrus, but his own music hasn't yet become a known commodity for many listeners.

Tiffany & Co. now shares a block and a wall with Trump Tower, a place where very bad things seem likely to have happened, a place where you may have recently stood in the middle of a surging mass of people chanting "Shame!

About a third has been attributed to Taro, another third to Seymour, significantly expanding the known Spanish Civil War output of two photographers who have, until recently, stood in Capa's shadow.

They have also recently stood up to any move perceived as a threat to job security.

AT LUMLEY JUNCTION in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, where Land Cruisers driven by foreign aid workers zoom past on Saturday mornings on their way to the beach, a large hoarding has, until recently, stood under a palm tree.