"Lessing stands for the weakness in English bourgeois liberalism," Crace says, "the thing that I hate in my guts, the person who would rather not give offence than do the right thing.
And because legal systems are tasked with furthering society's wide-ranging behavioral goals (fight less; stand behind bargains; save enough for retirement), the effects of evolutionary processes on behaviors can pose unexpected challenges.
The lesson is people are less likely to stand for cuts to firefighters and policemen.
The couple survive on a bewildering basket of ever-changing benefits with increasingly obscure acronyms: Linney gets £213 of ESA, for example, but her DLA of £300, paid every four weeks, has now been replaced by a PIP worth considerably less (the initials stand for employment and support allowance, disability living allowance, and personal independence payment).
Because Bailey's "Cheever" is so wise and serious, so human an account, it may be churlish to wish that he had managed to use a bit less material to stand for the events and sensations of a life shaped by its repetitive duration.
They are less prepared to stand for their civil rights.
Patrick Symmes, the author of "Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend," said, "I think the more that time goes by, the chicer and chicer Che gets because the less he stands for anything".
For green reasons, they have to stand for less consumption, too.
Cows without fresh feed at the 1400 h milking tended to stand for less time following that milking (71.0 vs. 94.0 min), whereas cows without fresh feed at the 0700 h milking stood for less time following that milking (66.3 vs. 87.8 min).
However, the record was to stand for less than three years, being passed by Amundsen on 7 December 1911.
