Sentence examples for matter of standing from inspiring English sources

"It was a matter of standing up for what the church believes is right".

Is the ability to think about an object a matter of standing in an appropriate causal relation to it?

"This was simply a matter of standing up for marriage between a man and a woman". It worked.

They don't see opposition to an Iraq war as cowardice; they see it as courage, a matter of standing up to the bullying Bush administration.

Not conducting arrests at the time of riot events was deliberate, they said, not a matter of standing back and doing nothing.

It's just a matter of standing around in a place somewhere, looking around and saying: well, you know, what would be fun here?

"It's not a spirit," he declared matter-of-factly, standing in the Leningradsky railroad station in Moscow.

"I'll have to ad-lib," Mr. Holt said matter-of-factly, standing just off camera and waiting for his cue to go on tonight at just after 6 p.m. Two hours earlier, Mr. Holt had breathlessly relayed to viewers a network scoop in an even more critical decision, the State Supreme Court ruling that barred the secretary of state, Katherine Harris, from declaring the Florida vote final on Saturday.

Their indebtedness to the counterculture was apparent in an interest in the Matter of Britain: standing stones, ley lines, and other deposits of the island's Celtic and pre-Celtic cultures; the corpus of medieval and Renaissance ballad and courtly song; British folk art, music and dance; the Beat poets and their American predecessors, especially William Williams and Charles Olson, and so on.

They do have the small matter of Toulon standing in their way in Europe, and they haven't made a Premiership final since 2011, but this side is probably the best Saracens have ever had and they are in mighty good form.

In order to adjust the NIR expansion factors for their usage of IEEAF balance sheets, at first the ratio of the aggregated carbon dry matter and the volume of standing timber as published in NIR are computed for the two reference years.