Sentence examples for stand by at from inspiring English sources

Why do political spouses stand by at news conferences during a scandal?

If the government doesn't stand by at least minimal principles of environmentalism, it will lose its ethical basis to stir the rest of the world to act.

The reason for the unlikely epithet that I'm going to stand by, at least until the end of this article, is their 2003 masterwork, Long Gone Before Daylight.

He has assigned workers to monitor the chemicals in the pool every hour, 24 hours a day, and guards stand by at night to make sure revelers and crafty teenagers do not sneak in for unauthorized midnight swims.

This year, the brash and opinionated Michael Irvin has been added to the program, more debate will be encouraged, and the coaches will have to stand by at the video cameras, maybe until the second round.

Determined to go through with this absurd exercise, I arranged for someone to stand by at my place to receive the emissary.

EasyJet cheerfully admits to having about "one and half planes' worth" of spare capacity compared with the dozen planes BA has on stand-by at Gatwick and Heathrow in case of problems.

Emergency supplies are on stand-by at the UNICEF global supply hub in Copenhagen and relief flights can be launched at any hour.

The most prominent figure at the Bolshoi to stand by Volochkova at the time was Filin's most vocal detractor, the principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

French peacekeepers stood by at a near checkpoint but there was growing Muslim hostility towards them too.

As Obama later described his send-off, an Indonesian co-pilot who was a friend of Ann's escorted him to the plane "as she and Lolo and my new sister, Maya, stood by at the gate".