Sentence examples for rough stand from inspiring English sources

AS they say in the Navy when seas get rough, stand by for heavy rolls.

As they say in the United States Navy when the sea gets rough, stand by for heavy rolls.

"I've had a bit of a rough stand with injuries, but at the same time, I've matured as an athlete mentally," Post said.

This being the Netherlands, there was no mistaking the division: on one side, a canal bordered by tightly wedged row houses; on the other, a path and perhaps a house on top of a high grassy dike, a thin line of blue water, a flat farm field or a rough stand of trees.

The intermediate rough gets its haircut with a sit-down diesel-powered mower, calibrated to cut the grass an inch and a quarter high, while the higher rough stands at three and a half inches.

Then the slab passes through four-high roughing stands, typically four arranged in tandem, which roll it to a thickness of about 30 millimetres.

What, I thought, was that Orwell line about sleeping safe at night because rough men stand ready?

As Richard Grenier, paraphrasing Orwell, had it: "people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf".

So while Bauer may be what George Orwell was thinking of when he said: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"; Mackey sees himself as the line that separates the soldiers from the civilians, he claims to make deals to keep the peace, to prevent civilians getting caught in the crossfire of thugs who are beyond redemption.

"That's a rough department, stand-up comedy," he once recalled.

What heterosexual woman wouldn't fall for a stirringly soulful, countercultural bit of rough who stands up to the Man, His boring real estate projects and His loathsome attempt to commodify nature's bounty?