To art lovers, the likeness of a small standing child who stares petrified at the viewer as if scared by a world alien to him is a gem that ranks among the Spanish master's greatest works.
He is a "babu" himself, Jagdish G. Pandiya an official of no small standing, with a stately Ambassador car and a driver, a brisk manner and a title, "additional collector," that goes back to 250 years of British rule in India, when the basic administrative systems for ruling this vast, chaotic country were laid down.
Bear in mind that the Portakabin isn't even as big as a small studio flat and also any vague illusion of size and space will be ruined as soon as you put a bed, a sofa, a wardrobe or a TV in there, or even a couple of stools and a small standing shelf set—.
But there are a few small standing pools of water, a result of the leaking roof.
The corps also maintains a small standing army of Iraqi exiles, the Badr Brigade; many of them may share their patrons' loathing of the United States.
Before I started paying £330 a month for a travel card I used to pay like £8 each way for my own small standing patch of a sweaty, delayed London Midlands train into London.
I feel like a child wearing my parents clothes, awkward and ugly and small standing in front of Carla's appraising, mascaraed eyes.
The military was organized along similar lines to the British and American armed forces of the time, in which a small standing army could quickly augment its strength during emergencies from a reserve militia force (in Brazil, the National Guard).
Pony, any of several breeds of small horses standing less than 14.2 hands (147 cm, or 58 inches) high and noted for gentleness and endurance.
The inspections also identified a number of smaller free-standing walls in 11 primary schools, some of which support wash-hand basins.
