Sentence examples for made stands from inspiring English sources

Many of the stores where owners made stands over the years have vanished.

We have forced through laws which were unpopular at the time, and made stands on principle because we believed in them".

Athletes have demonstrated against perceived racism as recently as this spring, when Serena Williams and the Knicks made stands against the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse.

Similarly, a cluster of works by Carrie Mae Weems, Fernando Bryce, Luc Tuymans and Koto Ezawa exposes the contortions of race and power, while Cady Noland's mostly metal found-object sculpture from 1988 (acquired 17 years after it was made) stands among them insinuating an incorrigible type of American pride and prejudice.

"But a lot of people have made stands and possibly some of our guys felt that they needed to stand shoulder to shoulder, which, I think, you have to accept.

A comparison of fire severity indices, fireline intensity, stand characteristics and post-fire recovery in treated and untreated stands in New Mexico and Arizona indicates that fire severity was lower in treated areas, and more aggressive treatments made stands less susceptible to crown fire [6].

But the ones he made stand as tiny monuments.

Burr maintained that this scene annoyingly sidestepped the essential elements that made stand-up comedy exciting.

And he was made stand-in skipper at times this season when Tamika Mkandawire was out injured.

We make stands".

"Even then he was making stands," Mrs. Istomin said.