Sentence examples for point to stand from inspiring English sources

The Greens also remain unchanged, at 2%, while the British National party picks up a point, to stand at 2%.

Ms. Davis identified her former husband as "the man in black," and Mr. Davis became the wealthiest man to that point to stand trial for murder.

If, as seems inevitable, Old Trafford orders a Class of '92 statue at some point to stand alongside the famous trio of Best, Law and Charlton, the statistical comparison would be interesting, to say the least.

But he came at some point to stand behind his wife at the stove and put his arms around her, nuzzling her neck, kissing her behind her ear, and she leaned back into his kiss, as she always did, tilting her head to give herself to him.

But there is sufficient truth in the assertion for Du Plessis's point to stand,­ particularly because of the high profile and sensitivity of names such as Potch,­ which, as well as being a university town is the centre of one of the country's major Afrikaans churches, to which the reformist prime minister, FW de Klerk, belongs.

"If I really think this was fuelled by anything this year, as opposed to any other year, it's probably been in the political culture that we find ourselves in — that everybody is willing, at this point, to stand up and state their opinion and stand for it," he said.

In four months unemployment rose nearly three percentage points to stand at 15.5% in February.

Sussex had to win with good batting bonus points to stand any chance of survival.

His first dive earned him 71.75 points to stand joint fifth with Qiu.

The latest poll put Labour down one point on 35 per cent while the Conservatives shed four points to stand at 32 per cent.

Supporters said the war required that the country not allow legal fine points to stand in its way.