Sentence examples for might stand in from inspiring English sources

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.

The refusal to pretend means they have to rely on analogy and metaphor, so that frying an egg might stand in for a scientific experiment.

One way to do this might be to try to identify the motivations of scientists producing exemplary work and show how that factor might stand in as a proxy for what a given historicist programme takes to be central to rationality.

In This Surreal Zine, Friendship is Like an Old T-Shirt.

Anyone who might stand in the way is pursued.

It energised his ambition, and blinkered his attitude to anything that might stand in his way.

Girardi, whose team might stand in the way, made sure he knew how it had unfolded.

Brownback has shown little patience with anyone who might stand in the way of the revolution.

But I did sense where I might stand in relation to all of this.

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

For some time it has been thought likely that candidates from the local party led by Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman might stand in the borough's two parliamentary constituencies, challenging Labour incumbents Rushanara Ali and Jim Fitzpatrick.