Sentence examples for rare standing from inspiring English sources

Scruggs had achieved rare standing among trial lawyers — as a visionary, whose extravagant fee awards allowed him to discount, with some credibility, money as his prime motivation.

But it is extremely moving, and was given a rare standing ovation.

Later that day, he received a rare standing ovation from the members of the Oxford Union.

"Well, why don't we see for ourselves?" Comic-Con gave the actor a rare standing ovation as the entire stadium-sized convention hall broke the gathering's strict no-standing rule in unison.

Balding, the face of London 2012, took to the stage to a rare standing ovation from a packed room of TV executives at the Grosvenor hotel in London on Tuesday night.

Experiencing the impact of his genius to connect and to empower, the graduates rose to salute Wally with one of the rare standing ovations in the history of Swarthmore commence ments--and then went off to infect the world with the powers Wally had so lovingly released in them.

There followed a rare sight: a standing ovation for a single point.

A rare bronze leg, standing more than seven feet high, which Giacometti conceived in 1947 and cast a year later, was bought by Andrew Fabricant, a New York dealer, for $10 million, or $11.2 million including fees.

What is left does not cover the family's needs, so Mrs. Condurat spends rare free moments standing in line for handouts at the local government welfare office, the Red Cross and the local church.

They are rare long standing tumors that have undergone degenerative changes, accounting for 0.8%% of soft tissue tumors.

Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Ripley in a rare pose: standing still -- almost.