Sentence examples for powerful stand from inspiring English sources

On that point, at least, he has made a powerful stand.

"But when it came to certain issues where he felt that people were misrepresenting authentic Judaism, he would take a powerful stand".

We will regard it as poor leadership if the government choose to take a less powerful stand than Oslo when deciding their own strategy for a sustainable future," said campaign group Future in our Hands.

In fact, the judgment actively invites concealment of the truth, so as to preserve reputations of all kinds, although, as with defamation law, the powerful stand to get the most out of it.

If you want to make a powerful stand, you can't just be staggering around drunk.

If you want to make a powerful stand, you can't be staggering around, piss drunk.

Mr. Bowie, so clear and powerful, stands out in a superbly dynamic cast.

• Given his other problems — and how far he has moved from the powerful stands he took on these issues early in the campaign — we do not hold out real hope that Barack Obama, as president, will take such a politically fraught step.

On an emotional level, the X-Men make a powerful stand-in for outsider groups like racial minorities or the LGBT community.

That led Okta to take what had been a feature within the Okta product set and make it a much more powerful stand-alone product.

But after a fresh onslaught of Church sex scandals this summer, and in a society still grappling with the #MeToo movement, it's fair to wonder whether and how the reckoning could ever reach the highest levels of the most powerful stand-alone religious institution on the planet.