Sentence examples for serious stand from inspiring English sources

Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal is calling for a "decisive and serious stand".

It's now down to people who believe in multiculturalism to make a serious stand for it – we cannot shy away.

Yet that issue is where House leaders are making their more serious stand against the three-year-old health insurance law they call Obamacare.

Gaz Coombes will be well versed in the anxiety experienced when taking the leap from indie hedonist to serious stand alone artist.

Perhaps this amazing archive of authentic Portuguese products is a serious stand against the globalization and fast retailing that seems to have taken over the rest of the E.U.

He added: "Instead of taking a serious stand against Nkurunziza's illegal bid to stand for a third term, AU leaders, including the current chairman Robert Mugabe, made light of the situation and openly joked about it during the recently concluded AU summit.

Steven, too, is a randy rebel without a religion and a serious stand-up fulminator.

That's why you see me belly dancing even though I've become a bit more of a serious stand-up".

But with the army melting away, nothing serious stands between the Forces Nouvelles and victory.

In another photo, a self-portrait by Paul Mpagi Sepuya, the artist — slim, serious — stands without affect in what looks like a studio, naked, save for a pair of socks, from the waist down.

It makes Alan Chambers, whose wife, tousle-haired and serious, stood very close to him on the podium, seem like a persuasive person — somebody who has had sex on both sides of the divide and was here to testify to the superiority of the married, heterosexual kind.