Sentence examples for issue to stand from inspiring English sources

They each had a different specific issue to stand their ground.

It feels almost like a human rights issue, to stand up to a bully who is now in charge of the American government.

"There are that many issues to stand on and I like raising issues.

During Thursday's broadcast recorded in Canterbury, Robert Carver told the comedian, who has recently campaigned on a number of political issues, to "stand for parliament".

Change may also be served by creating competition in local elections, making alcohol an election issue, encouraging well-known citizens sympathetic to addressing alcohol issues to stand for local government and mobilizing the community to vote.

The question, instead, is whether it will succeed in confusing the issue sufficiently to stand in the way of real reform.

Meanwhile, the Left, ready at all times to comment negatively on anything relating to America, remains absolutely silent on the Tibet issue, preferring to stand by CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury's hypocritical March 17 statement that the CPI-M was unable to comment as Tibet was an "internal matter" for China.

As a result, questions persist over the per-hectare reliabilities of national-scale carbon stock monitoring [21], and this issue continues to stand in the way of what could be a strong economic forcing mechanism to mitigate climate change.

met Thursday with President Barack Obama on the issue, continuing to stand as a lead face within the bipartisan Senate "Gang of Eight".

As a result, questions persist over the per-hectare reliabilities of national-scale carbon stock monitoring [ 21], and this issue continues to stand in the way of what could be a strong economic forcing mechanism to mitigate climate change.

Sometimes they offer terrain where great moral issues seem to stand in more stark relief than they do in our own high-speed time of information overload, consumer culture and the Internet.