Sentence examples for stand as a sort from inspiring English sources

In Syria, the Alawites stand as a sort of palace guard, with everything to lose.

It's suffered a few errors of transcription over the centuries: the first half of her verse is rarely, if ever, reproduced (it's expert, if fairly unremarkable), leaving the second to stand as a sort of semi-accidental sonnet.

Plainly, it has very much to do with the invention of modern time-keeping, and particularly with the rise of the clock in the early modern period, a device which, significantly, came to stand as a sort of metaphor for the machinery of nature.

The meeting opened Friday morning at Castel Gandolfo, a papal palace that stands as a sort of symbol for the church's coexistence with science.

A large, elegantly carved Tlingit totem pole from the Northwest coast, dating from the turn of the 20th century, stands as a sort of sentinel at the introductory end of the display.

Then, in February of 1976, Gates published "An Open Letter to Hobbyists" in the Altair newsletter, and the letter now stands as a sort of Magna Carta of the software industry — the underpinning of the intellectual-property structure.

Partly, Wolin suggests, it was because they were secular, assimilated Jews who had staked their German identity on their mastery of the nation's cultural traditions, and Heidegger stood as a sort of "self-proclaimed heir" to those traditions.

(Just look at my comment thread here, which now stands as a sort of historical marker of the lunacy of the campaign's closing days — and you should have seen the stuff that didn't make it through moderation!) On the face of it, this makes no sense.

"The Whipping Man" stands as a sort of grand slam of the diversity movement in the arts.

They stand today as a sort of fossilized imprint of the battle lines.

She despised photographers, refused interviews and generally preserved her privacy with a zeal that makes it all the more sad that this sentimental, prurient book should stand as any sort of epitaph of what was evidently a life thoroughly well lived.