Sentence examples for idea was stood on from inspiring English sources

But, by the mid-seventies, the idea was stood on its head: in the wake of the sixties' great political, social, and generational disruptions, nostalgia (for the fifties, and sometimes for earlier) took hold, as did the dream and the yearning for the kind of cultural unity that seemed (but only seemed) to have been lost.

He was stood behind a young woman, who had no idea what was going on.

It is Mr. Romney who is waging it, not President Obama, and he's stood the whole idea on its head.

The idea is to stand just outside the frame.

The idea is catching on overseas, too.

The idea is catching on with corporations.

Several cemetery employees stood nearby to pay their respects and listen to stories about a man they had no idea was on their grounds.

His idea was seemingly never capitalised on.

Keynes's idea was squashed by the Americans, who stood to lose from it.

But at that point, Mr. Greenberg protested on the stand, the idea was only "hypothetical".

'The idea is that you stand out in a crowd.