Sentence examples for had stood up from from inspiring English sources
She had stood up from her chair, and the performer's look was on her face, the performer's self-assurance was suddenly evident in her posture.
If Wallach had stood up from his prone position at the wrong time, one of the jutting steps could have decapitated him.
I've stood up, from the grassroots and in the face of institutional resistance, for financial and factual openness.
The crime was fixed in the west's collective imagination as a Putin plot to snuff out a brave dissident, a whistleblower who had stood up to the dark forces emanating from the Kremlin.
I looked for practical advice and moral support from those who had stood up for the ideal.We need a strategy for a new American uprising against those who would suppress our rights; we need what Lincoln would have called "a new birth of freedom".
Mr. Bachchan is joining a select company of other public figures who have stood up for children, from the first Goodwill Ambassador Danny Kaye appointed in 1954 to the legendary Audrey Hepburn to the present day champions for children, Sir Roger Moore, Harry Belafonte and singer Angelique Kidjo, to name a few.
Until now, we've stood up alone, without organized help from anyone.
Or this, from Connecticut: "I've stood up to the big drug companies, the big oil companies, the insurance companies and the HMOs".
This is the country that wrote Magna Carta, the country that time and again has stood up for human rights – whether liberating Europe from fascism or leading the charge today against sexual violence in war.
The controversy about the HPV vaccine was also raised last week when doctor Riko Muranaka – who has stood up to intimidation from anti-vaccine groups in Japan – was awarded the international John Maddox prize for promoting science in the public interest.
