Sentence examples for make a stand at from inspiring English sources

"You've got to make a stand at some point".

I think we have to make a stand at some point.

— In division rivalry games, can 0-2 makeesota make a stand at home against the beastly 2-0 Lions?

But now, in this debate over the debt ceiling, each side seems ready to make a stand at last and find out whom the voters really trust when it comes to righting the nation's finances.

Ritchie's intention was to make a stand at Mersa Matruh, but on the evening of June 25, Auchinleck assumed command and decided to fight a more-mobile engagement in the area around el-Alamein.

They have chosen to make a stand, at a not-insubstantial political risk to their party, but at little personal political risk because they are elected in overwhelmingly Republican districts.

Iraq's military appears to have decided to make a stand at Najaf, though the forces there are mostly militia fighters from Mr. Hussein's Baath Party and two other groups, Saddam Fedayeen and Al Quds Army.

By opting to make a stand at this point, when by the corporation's own admission it still has very significant internal efficiency failings – which are potentially worth far more in terms of savings if remedied than switching BBC3 online – the BBC has opened a vulnerable flank to attack.

In addition, most units to make a stand at Radzymin were exhausted after surviving a 600 km retreat from Belarus.

Militia forces led by von Steuben and Peter Muhlenberg decided to make a stand at Blandford, then a separate community.

The division was attempting to make a stand at Taejon, the last place it could conduct a delaying action before the North Korean forces could converge on the unfinished Pusan Perimeter.