Sentence examples for has stood less from inspiring English sources
If you were looking for pretty basketball, you could turn over to the Heat's latest unsuspenseful victory over the Bucks, but Milwaukee has stood less of a chance in that series than Geno Smith did of escaping his televised agony.
Work is not due to resume until 2013 - by which time it will have stood less than half-built for almost 12 months.
Although he is the first winter sports athlete to earn berths in the Olympics and the Paralympics, McKeever, 30, has stood out here less for his disability than for his demeanor.
Since American democracy has stood on more or less firm ground for centuries, it won't drop to its knees so easily.
In Huerta girls will find someone who has stood up for the less fortunate and made a real difference in the quality of families' lives.
Every president in the past two decades has stood behind it, more or less.
What he showed could have stood with a little less paddock fondness for breeches and riding boots, and a bit more of the nasty.
The connection was there from the very beginning, when in 1780 the Englishman Michael Maddox –"either a mathematician or a tightrope walker during his youth" – ended up with a licence from Catherine the Great to run a theatre (the first of three that have stood on more or less the same site in Moscow).
The Yugoslavs had stood for something -- no less than the defense of Western civilization against the Turks in 1389 -- while in 1939 the bigger powers appeased Hitler, buying him off with the small fry -- although Henry rightly said there was no limit to his appetite, that indeed Nazism was all about appetite.
The monument, which had stood for nearly 20 years at less than one-third of its proposed height, now seemed ready for completion.
