Sentence examples for might stand for from inspiring English sources

In the aftermath of the election, I received hundreds of e-mails from readers suggesting what Democrats might stand for today after standing for nothing brought them their Nov. 5 debacle.

It might stand for Nikolai Astrup himself.

In this, it might stand for all developed societies.

He has already mused that he might stand for mayor of Bogotá.

After several minutes of verbal sparring, he conceded that it might stand for "collateralized debt obligation".

This phenomenon is hard to calculate, but perhaps a detail might stand for the whole.

For example, for some graduates a gap year might stand in for a placement year; or it may be a chance to get some professional knowhow.

Here he might stand in for Jesus; Sombertown is clearly a thickly disguised Roman empire.

It has no laws, no essential use of mathematics, and no technical language that might stand in for mathematics.

– surrounded by fellow Rotarians, he resigned while saying he might stand again for the post in the autumn.

They told me that race hardly ever came up, but other sensitive matters that might stand in for race sometimes did.