Sentence examples for serious standing from inspiring English sources

He was very serious, standing there in front of his great rainbow.

To date, the 32-year-old Long Island wine industry has not acquired the serious standing in the secondary market to rival mainstays like Bordeaux and Burgundy.

If David Cameron is serious about standing up to his Eurosceptic backbenchers he should start backing action against cross-border crime.

"It is a signal that we're serious about standing behind democratic institutions in Afghanistan," said a Western official of the United Nations statement.

So serious that, standing in the wings on opening night, I thought that the first thing I was going to do on a Broadway stage was throw up.

They are also likely to meet in September at the UN General Assembly.The second is that India was apparently ready to take at least a step towards acknowledging what is obvious to any non-Indian: that Kashmir is a serious obstacle standing in the way of normal relations between the subcontinent's largest countries and that, without progress on it, there cannot be much progress on anything else.

"A soldier, whether they're Jewish or not, will see someone who is serious and standing by his faith without compromise," he explained.

"Now if Mr. Trump is serious about standing up for working families," he continued, "then he's not going to throw 20 million working people off of health insurance, he's not going to cut Medicare and Medicaid".

"If you're serious about standing up for women's rights and empowering them," she says "don't tell people how to dress, but allow them to have a neutral political space where they can ask the questions that need to be asked.

While technical in nature, this effect represents a serious obstacle standing in the way of correlation analysis and network inference.

Only a few years ago, it seemed possible to be both a Republican in good standing and a serious environmentalist; during the 2008 campaign John McCain warned of the dangers of global warming and proposed a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions.