Sentence examples for held standing from inspiring English sources

The meeting was held standing up.

For the first week, he said, he was held standing up in a tent with a hood over his head, and the soldiers guarding him were ordered to let him sit for only five minutes an hour.

It contains a number of ornate if spectacularly uncomfortable Regency armchairs and sofas on which no one sat: councils have been held standing ever since the day in 1861 when Queen Victoria discovered it helped get them over with sooner.

Still, a guy [in a Mao suit?] had to be held standing by, or was trying for a piggyback ride from, a [pretty young] woman.

This demographic expansion is more dramatic in populations that are completely Bd-susceptible (with environmental and/or pathogen factors enabling population persistence), compared to currently Bd-tolerant populations that likely held standing genetic variation for Bd tolerance when the pathogen first emerged and therefore did not crash as severely upon initial Bd outbreaks.

When the anthem was over, Phelps looked at Held standing next to him, smiled and wrapped a giant hand around his teammate's head.

There's a space to the left of my computers where people can stand and work, and I hold standing meetings there.

Some companies are holding standing meetings.

As president, he would hold standing meetings with the chairman to discuss editorials and news coverage.

For instance, a slider labelled Force BA (Figure 6 top left) allows users to over-ride the calculated stand basal area and thus to explore growth patterns and possible thinning regimes by holding standing basal area constant.

The place is tiny, and some of the city's most powerful players hold standing reservations, making it impossible for norms like me and you to get in.