Sentence examples for had stood aside from inspiring English sources

Boyd had stood aside with his clipboard, as if he knew that Bergeron was a perfect argument for the opposition.

Imagine how much messier Facebook's IPO would have been if Mark Zuckerberg had stood aside on the eve of flotation.

If the police had stood aside and allowed this disorder to continue, they would have been criticized for losing control of the situation.

The previous president, Kgalema Motlanthe, had stood aside on the ANC's instruction to make way for Mr Zuma, and has since become deputy president.Continuity seems likely in most of the other Sub-Saharan elections scheduled this year.

Asked about the historical weight of military ties with the Soviet Union, Major Ciuca noted that his country had stood aside when the rest of the Warsaw Pact answered the Soviet call to invade Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring.

He set out to punish the man who had allowed all this to come to pass: Otto Frank had allied himself with the pundits of erasure; Otto Frank had stood aside when Levin's play was elbowed out of the way.

"It just seems bizarre that he wouldn't have stood aside".

The move is a rare example of a Gulf leader who has stood aside of his own free will.

SK: And she could be blaming him for having stood aside and let them do things to her.

Not only has Sir Alex Ferguson left his position after 26 years, chief executive David Gill has stood aside as well 11 years after succeeding Peter Kenyon.

The third Elliott nominee, Peter Chambers, has stood aside as a candidate, but Alliance will still appoint one more new independent director.