It is making its last major stand in France in Cahors, a southwestern region, where it is Domaine de Lagrézette's key player.
But analysts said the regime could be debating whether to make a major stand in Palmyra, portraying itself as the guardian of Syria's history against nihilistic enemies bent on destroying it, or to cut its losses and retrench closer to its redoubts in the west of the country.
The North Stand was "the first major stand in Britain to use what is now broadly termed the 'goalpost' structure".
READERS of a certain age should have no trouble alerting young viewers to the identities of the main characters in the new version of "Animal Farm" to be telecast on TNT on Sunday, Oct. 3: That show pig, Old Major, is a stand-in for Lenin; that vicious-looking porker, Napoleon, can be nobody but Stalin, and that sometime comrade, Snowball, soon to be on the trot from Stalin, is Trotsky.
Two major obstacles stand in the way.
Two major obstacles stand in the way of building up an effective musical computer language.
From astronomy and neuroscience, to civil engineering and genomics, major obstacles stand in the way of processing, analyzing and storing all this data.
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today that no major problems stood in the way of the launching, though there were some weather concerns.
At least two major roadblocks stand in the way of assembling a coalition that could produce enough votes to challenge Jafari.
OBAMA: While I've been prepared to take additional steps for some time, a major obstacle stood in our way: the wrongful imprisonment in Cuba of U.S. citizen and USAID subcontractor Alan Gross for five years.
Major obstacles stood in the way.
