Sentence examples for seats stand from inspiring English sources

"Even though it is an older building, it still has held its suites, although the seats stand out because there's nobody in them".

The development is overshadowing what had initially attracted the most attention in the redistricting process here: that Democrats, who now control 34 seats, stand to gain two to four more.

While Locog hunts desperately for a PR-friendly way to fill them, those rows upon rows of empty seats stand as monuments to inequality, to the existence of a stratum of society so awash with unearned, unsought, undeserved and therefore unvalued booty that they barely even notice it any more, while a crowd stands patiently outside, waiting for the rules to change.

In big sections of the mezzanine, row upon row of red-backed seats stood mostly vacant.

But its traditional array of safe seats stands at just 12 of these, beside Labor's own half dozen, leaving another 11 perennially at play (leaving aside the seat of Queensland's only long-term independent, Bob Katter in Mt Isa).

Professor Leighton Vaughan Williams, director of the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, said that the failure of pollsters to authoritatively predict that Conservatives would win the most seats stood in stark contrast to the betting markets, which, he argued, had proved more reliable.

They had wanted to express their anger at having been charged £64 per ticket and, when they began to filter into the stadium after six minutes, their counterparts in the Arsenal seats stood to applaud them.

As the scrum intensified, other ruling party members still in their seats stood up to signal their support for the legislation, though there did not appear to have been an audible announcement of what they were voting on.

The beautiful people slid across their booth seats, stood and prepared to leave.

If seated, stand only if everyone else is standing.

I darted toward the seat, stood in front of it and pivoted so that my backside was in place before beginning to squeeze into the empty seat.