Sentence examples for little standing from inspiring English sources

There was very little standing up for CBS and for the networks at the time.

But Mr. Sperling, the Treasury official who was one of the architects of the proposal, said the industry's claims had little standing.

It is also true that an administration that offered a blanket pardon to former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio has little standing to claim the mantle of being a group that puts law and order above politics.

As a fugitive, Mr. Polanski has little standing to appeal his conviction, but if he can persuade a prosecutor or judge in Los Angeles to take up the matter, a court could overturn the 30-year-old conviction.

At a news conference in the offices of the ruling National Democratic Party on Thursday, the secretary general and a longtime ally of Mr. Mubarak, Safwat el-Sherif, struck a confident tone, saying that the party wanted to have a dialogue with the nation's young people, but that in his view the critics had little standing.

Fiscal conservatives say Angelides has little standing to lecture the incoming governor on borrowing.

Lush is the little guy standing up to Amazon – but what if I hate the little guy?

Little fish, standing up on skewers, begging for the grill.

"A little kid standing, facing the tank in Palestine.

Obama must not do the same thing today, by saying too little or standing too aloof.

The boys looked at her, a little shy, standing in the middle of the room.