Sentence examples for over standing for from inspiring English sources

Liberals and conservatives have been fighting over standing for decades.

As he continues to mull over standing for a Westminster seat next May, it seems we definitely haven't seen the last of Mr Salmond.

It also tries to recast criticism over some of his verbal missteps as criticism over standing up for his values despite the consequences.

The battalion's symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel, though the battalion claims it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other, standing for "national idea".

The most obvious are the physical constraints of pregnancy, which make bending over, reaching up, standing for long periods of time, and working with radioactivity a challenge.

And then there was the work: Zhang performed one or two small tasks over and over again while standing for hours on end in a huge line turning out Apple products.

In cases where a subject was able to continue single-leg standing for over 120 s, the test was completed at that point.

To prevent the ship from flooding McNish built a cofferdam, caulking it with strips of blankets and nailing strips over the seams, standing for hours up to his waist in freezing water as he worked.

How else could any political figure attract over 75,000 people standing for hours in the hot sun of Oregon just for a glimpse of this false political messiah named Barack Obama?

"But there's a caveat, and this is critical: While a majority of independents, Democrats and swing voters are for compromise over standing on principle, a majority of Republican voters are against compromise and for standing on principle".

The hotel is situated on one of the most prominent canals in the city lined with hundreds of historic buildings which have been standing for over seven hundred years.