Sentence examples for once stood for from inspiring English sources
Still, he knows what the company once stood for.
One congressman quipped that "BP once stood for British Petroleum…it now stands for Bolshoi Petroleum".
White flight had emptied a great metropolis that once stood for industrial progress.
His motivation, he writes, is "bayt and the desire to resurrect what once stood for something".
THE war in Darfur, Sudan's ravaged western region, once stood for conflicts everywhere.
They feel the same about him: that he has betrayed everything he once stood for.
Edward Markey, a senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, said: "BP once stood for British Petroleum.
Mr. McGuinness seemed to incline his head to the monarch who once stood for everything he opposed.
AARP (which once stood for the American Association of Retired Persons) had a budget of nearly $900 million in 2004.
And the reaction at home, in the Republican Party that once stood for democratic internationalism and American power?
At that intersection, where the 1883 Corn Exchange Building once stood, for-lease signs adorn a $15 million project.
