Sentence examples for man of standing from inspiring English sources

He was then used as an example of what could happen even to a white man of standing if he stepped out of line.

Gerald L. Shargel, Mr. Wyatt's lawyer, acknowledged that his client was a man of standing in Iraq but hastened to add that his relationship with Mr. Hussein was far more complex than the government suggested.

Many of the writers Cole and Bryant encountered were men of standing in other fields -- several were newspaper editors (Bryant later edited The New York Evening Post), Verplanck served four terms in Congress and Morse was to earn renown as inventor of the telegraph.

He's right, no one quite sounds like this gravelly voiced force of nature, the last great soul man left (sort of) standing.

And now look at him: an old man of eighty-seven, staloneg atone at a railroad station, on a damp gray day, clutching a sheaf of papers.

When Nixon went to China, it was said that only a man of his standing in America's hawkish conservative community could have risked making that momentous journey.

They will recall the image of a political leader and man of God standing at the top of a hill surrounded by hundreds of men waving gun licences.

Pros: A good, gentle man who's still capable of standing up for you.

They were men who made a point of standing apart.

Women of faith are expected to stay behind, instead of standing beside men.

The man turned to a group of men standing in front of the store.