Sentence examples for minor standing from inspiring English sources

Even in that other major British sporting export that has rather minor standing in the rest of the continent – rugby union – cooking the books by taking France out of the equation, still leaves Italy with Georgia, Romania, Russia, Spain and Portugal for company in the IRB's top 25.

Then, too, it was the role of the chief magistrate, a jurist of relatively minor standing in South Africa's legal system, to weigh whether it was a case of murder or mishap.

Mr Roh also favours the continuation of Mr Kim's "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North, whereas Mr Lee has called for aid to be halted until the North dismantles its recently-revealed uranium-enrichment programme for nuclear weapons.As well as the front-runners, there are several candidates from minor parties standing in the poll, for a grand total of seven in all.

Minor: Medium financial loss, minor disruption to capability, minor impact on community standing.

Such skills are usually learned, over years, in the minor leagues, or by standing beside someone in the N.H.L. who has a much better idea what he is doing.

Exhibition halls tend to be closely guarded by hawk-eyed babushki who can sometimes be fountains of wisdom about art and life, but are more often known for pouncing on visitors for minor transgressions such as standing too close to paintings.

Perhaps she's punishing the students "for not having taken it like a woman — for being wimps who ran to the law to whinge about a minor unpleasantness, instead of standing up and fighting back with their own weapons of youth and quick wits".

The distance between the plots within clusters was set to 250 m, as no or minor spatial autocorrelation in standing volume was found for this and greater distances [20].

The distance between the plots within clusters was set to 250 m, as no or minor spatial autocorrelation in standing volume was found for this and greater distances [ 20].

A household was recorded as having safe storage if there were no containers in the house or in the homestead that would be accessible with minor effort, e.g. standing on a chair in the case of children or climbing a ladder in the case of adults.

There will always be some minor or major inconvenience standing in your way, and if life made remarkable accomplishments easy to perform, they wouldn't be remarkable anymore.