"This must have taken some effort, as the ceiling was 20 feet high". The Buddhas had stood for a millennium and a half; the smaller figure, 38m tall, was built around AD550, and the larger – at 55m only a little shorter than London's Monument – around AD615.
"Our brand, being a premium brand, has stood for the highest quality," Mr. Redsun said, "and there's a perceived value in that" during a downturn.
Chicago has stood for high academic standards and freewheeling scholarly inquiry.
In response to e-mailed questions, Meghan Stapleton, who is based in Alaska for the McCain-Palin campaign, wrote: "Throughout her career Governor Palin has stood for the highest standards of ethics.
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Susan Jones equalled a British high jump record which had stood for 19 years, but the men's team gave their worst European Cup performance since 1979, in the Weser-Stadion yesterday.
A month long battle by staff and customers of the Ecology building society to save a magnificent 100 foot high lime tree that has stood for 250 years in Silsden, West Yorkshire and overhangs the society's own grounds ended on Tuesday after the tree was unceremoniously felled in just five minutes – to make way for an Aldi supermarket.
For menswear aficionados, Italian luxury label Ermenegildo Zegna has long stood for a high-quality yet understated gray-flannel sensibility.
Her essay may have stood out for its originality, but without her stellar high school record, it couldn't have gotten her through these ivy-covered doors.
It has stood as much for tolerance as faith in a community where the former is in high demand.
A "Christian" school established a few years ago by the local Baptists is taking over from the city of Claremont a 15-year-old junior high school, which has stood vacant for lack of pupils for the last five years.
