Sentence examples for hold standing from inspiring English sources

For as long as farmers have been farming in the Midwest, they have been laying drainage tile — often perforated plastic tubes installed 2 feet to 4 feet below the surface — to drain wetlands and create arable fields in places that would normally hold standing water.

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.

Since the number of victims able to hold standing balance on either leg for 30 seconds was so small, we defined maintaining standing balance on one leg for 30 seconds as a "successful" outcome variable for analysis.

In most countries where dengue is endemic and attributable to Ae. aegypti mosquitoes which breed around houses, communities are encouraged to decrease the availability of breeding sites, removing containers that might hold standing water, treating containers with chemicals, and perhaps fogging an entire area with pesticides.

Get rid of potential mosquito breeding sites such as hollow stem plants (like bromeliads), old tires, bird baths and other vessels that could hold standing water.

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.

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.

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.