Sentence examples for it Stands in relation from inspiring English sources

It stands in relation to Mr Ecclestone's wealth, estimated at more than $4 billion.

It stands in relation to the original the way Amy Heckerling's Beverly Hills comedy Clueless does to Jane Austen's Emma.

But it stands in relation to real poltical involvement as 900-number phone sex does to real emotional involvement.

It stands in relation to the [recent cycle of] superhero movies as the graphic novel did to comic books at the time".

OLYMPIC QUALIFYING By the time the United States men's Olympic team takes the field against Canada at 8 p.m. tonight in Hershey, Pa., it will know where it stands in relation to Mexico, which first plays Panama at 5 30 p.m.

Wallace had first been hospitalised with depression while a student of English and philosophy at Amherst College; his first published story, "The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing", written for the Amherst magazine was, like much of his later work, a several-steps-removed account of his own relationship with depressive illness.

As for the novel itself, the whole conception, the way one's seen the thing, felt about it, made it stand in relation to other things, not one in a million cares for that".

But my sister, schooled in such things, explained that what we had here was the Midwestern sense of scale, and once you sit down in one of the folding chairs it begins to make sense: the fountain, built in 1927 to set off the skyscraper city that was already rising behind it, stands in ideal relation to the skyline.

If the second utterance describes a state, then it stands in the relation of Background to the first one.

An event is present by virtue of being the most recent increment of reality; when the event is present there is, as Broad says, nothing to which it stands in the relation of precedence.

The idea here is to reject a subjectivism about the good, holding that what makes it true that something is good is not that it stands in some relation to desire but rather that it is somehow perfective or completing of a being, where what is perfective or completing of a being depends on that being's nature.