Sentence examples for has stood to from inspiring English sources

Vikram has stood to my expectations.

For more than 2,000 years a buried, life-size terracotta army of 7,000 soldiers has stood to attention near the city of Xi'an in central China.

And, given his reality show and self-marketing background, it has stood to reason that he would have a convention filled with television ratings bait.

As the first large Western government to explicitly allow businesses to set up shop on its soil, Britain has stood to benefit enormously from taxing Internet gambling companies that moved here.

Another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033, but two years later the Fatimid caliph Ali az-Zahir built another mosque which has stood to the present-day.

Visitors in Lower Manhattan this morning were told the Statue of Liberty--which in America's darkest hours has stood to represent freedom, egalitarianism, and a functioning government of the people, by the people--was closed.

I walked up to the spot where Xi Jinping had stood to deliver his remarks.

"They didn't want a trial — couldn't have stood to have a trial with the campaign going on".

Goals!" And yet there were also strikes that Brera himself might have stood to applaud.

All three had populations under 200, and had stood to lose the heart of a generation.

Whatever the case, you and I have stood to build Zimbabwe".