The phrase "make our stand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to convey that you are taking a strong stance about something and that you will not back down. For example, "We intend to make our stand against this unjust decision."
"We were going to make our stand".
"I do believe that Northern Ireland is a pro-life country, like the whole of Ireland, and we will continue to make our stand," she said.
"I do believe that Northern Ireland is a pro-life country, like the whole of Ireland, and we will continue to make our stand against this baby-killing clinic".
"We will make our stand on those hills," he said, as he told the men where to go.3 They were only 18,000, all told — such had been the price of Lee's dispersion of force — and they seemed a pitifully small command with which to face the army they knew was in pursuit.
This is like the Warsaw Uprising: the odds against us may be daunting, but we'll never have a better venue to make our stand.
"We Republicans will make our stand in opposition to this Kenyan-born/illegal-alien/Manchurian-Candidate and save America's most precious resource," said the representative, holding her slit wrists together.
"I made our stand very clear, and explained we're insisting on 100percentt results, and not on the efforts," he told an Israeli television interviewer in Washington today.
So we retreated across the street, and made our stand at the entrance to Bartholdi Park.
And last month, China's highest judge came out with an unusually sharp warning against Western legal influence: "We should resolutely resist erroneous influence from the West: 'constitutional democracy,'separationof of powers' and 'independence of the judiciary.' We must make clear our stand and dare to show the sword".
"Those things would make our hair stand on end.
We checked our makeup and did calisthenics to make our muscles stand out.
