Sentence examples for it stood for something from inspiring English sources

"It stood for something innovative".

It stood for something that had been forgotten, which is the importance of investment in places for shared public experience.

The reason that the Yes campaign started with 28 per cent and ended up with 45 per cent is because it stood for something".

Digg was never the biggest company of the movement, but it was bigger than many, and it stood for something.

It stood for something other than rinsing the punter dry.

Though not totally knowledgeable about it back then, I knew it stood for something I could see myself being a part of.

Most people look at a smartphone and see a hunk of glass and metal, but Leckey wants to understand what lies underneath, flip it on its head, and make it stand for something new.

If the Commonwealth is to survive in the 21st century, it needs to show that it stands for something more than its ties to the old empire.

China, too, manages to retain the image that it stands for something larger than itself, with its "one belt, one road" rhetoric of Chinese-led interdependence.

If it evicts the Philharmonic, it will have acted with admirable boldness and proved that it stands for something other than the preservation of its quaint past.

This concept of mode reflects a universal characteristic of the semiological unit (the 'sign'): it stands for something other than itself – this is its 'signified'/ meaning – and its shape, i.e., the 'signifier', must be formed of some substance which allows the human body to sense it.