Sentence examples for on a standing from inspiring English sources

One grandmother recalled attending a meeting at which supporters insisted on a "standing vote," not a secret ballot.

The emperor came to rely on a standing army rather than on troops provided by the German princes.

Lewis West spent moments balanced, impossibly, on a standing Freyja Edney's head and outstretched arm, as if edging out onto a building's ledge.

If doing manually, grate a chunk of ginger on the round, rather than diamond-shaped, openings on a standing metal grater.

The new Russia, secular and westward-looking, grounded on a standing army and a tax-gathering bureaucracy, also had its internal enemies.

However, she was not formally canonized until 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI declared her to be a saint through the process of "equivalent canonization," a papal proclamation of canonization based on a standing tradition of popular veneration.

The problem I'm on has a standing start.

"Wilfried can take people on from a standing start," said Ferdinand.

The questions regarding standing were: How does the child usually get into a standing position from sitting on a chair; maintain a standing position; sit down on a chair from a standing position?

This is a standing item on the Agenda.

Her journey started with an hourlong ride on a standing-room-only public bus, followed by 25 minutes in a minivan, and finally a five-minute walk to her house in the far southern confines of this Indonesian capital.