Sentence examples for interested in standing from inspiring English sources

In his speech, Durkan claimed that during last autumn's negotiations aimed at restoring power sharing to Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein was not interested in standing up to the Democratic Unionists or promoting nationalists' interests.

At a rally, Mr Farron added: "If Labour aren't interested in standing up to the Tories and providing a credible opposition, that's their funeral.

Mwesi is one of the loveliest horses I have ridden, but he was not at all interested in standing still to let me focus and frame shots.

Montague followed up with a question about balaclavas, which tripped Robinson up, but did not ask why the group was not interested in standing for election, to test its public support democratically.

Formed 18 months ago, Walker said many of the party's 65,000 members and registered supporters had expressed interested in standing in strategic seats, though the party has joined the Greens in a progressive alliance in Richmond Park to give its backing to the Lib Dems' Sarah Olney, who is fighting the former Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, now an independent.

Mrs Ransome added her 19-year-old son was also interested in standing in future elections.

Meanwhile, all Plimpton is interested in is standing center stage and braying, while Balaban does his usual bleating-sheep-about-to-be-sheared thing.

Of course, this raises the spectre of the vast private ownership of most of what we consider "the Internet," and the inherent weakness of private companies interested in profit standing up to governments who demand censorship or monitoring, a topic covered in detail by Evgeny Morozov in his riveting challenge to cyber-utopians (and digital centrism), The Net Delusion.

They seem more interested in safeguarding their Russian sales than in standing up for human rights.

Participant 21 (Group 3), manual desk, teacher/management role But I share my office with someone who's got a manual desk, she was equally interested in the standing but she hasn't used it and I think it's 'cause it's manual.

After this past Sunday's race, Stewart mentioned that he was not particularly interested in the points standing.