Sentence examples for less able to stand from inspiring English sources

Badges for people with disabilities or who are less able to stand, saying "Please offer me a seat", are also being trialled.

If we start having 'women only' places on the underground, in the way that we have seats reserved for the less able to stand, we implicitly accept that women are vulnerable in society rather than challenge that assumption.

And why did it allow its rivals to suggest we could do more to save Port Talbot if we went solo, when we would then be far less able to stand up to Chinese dumping?

The Labour MP Austin Mitchell claimed it was part of a deliberate strategy to concentrate HMRC's tax raising efforts on smaller companies and individuals who were less able to stand up to them "You go easy on the big boys and go harder on the companies that can't leave and have to pay their tax here," he alleged.

Passengers are expected to vacate these seats when needed by an elderly person, a pregnant woman, or anyone who is less able to stand.

You should vacate these seats when needed by an elderly person who is less able to stand, a pregnant woman or anyone else who requires as seat for any reason, should there be nowhere else for them to sit in that carriage.

(group 4, participant 1) Other participants were motivated by potential health benefits that they had heard were associated with sitting less and/or being able to stand while going about their usual daily work in the office.

Her director of constituency operations, Ron Barber, suffered less serious injuries and was able to stand for election to replace his former boss.

That means that Kong and Rex would be barely able to stand up, much less trade blows.

Less than half of the participants were able to stand on one leg for 30 seconds.

In other words real empowerment means a situation where B is less and less compelled to do A's bidding; where people are increasingly able to stand up to those who exercise power.