Sentence examples for stand for are from inspiring English sources

But the rights the United States is supposed to stand for are not just constitutional.

And I firmly believe that the values the EU stand for are actually British values on a world stage.

He added: "Those who think that they can terrorise the people of France or the values that they stand for are wrong".

"I would think there should be a certain anger among their voters that the fundamentals of what they stand for are being sacrificed to advance certain people's political careers".

Insurers do not normally lobby together, but two lobby groups, BAIWG and PCIIWG (do not ask what they stand for) are presenting bank regulators with ideas for lightening the capital charge that banks must bear for operational risk.

Moving from Syria to Guantánamo is not just a disjuncture or a false note; questions about the international community and its rules, about knowing the players in the region and them knowing us, about what and who we are seen to stand for, are practical issues here, too.

Everything we stand for is flowing through it".

Would Rupert Murdoch stand for being merely No. 2?

"I think the notion of what the game is supposed to stand for is fading".

Some of what they stand for is positive: an organic, earth-conscious element.

But what we shouldn't stand for is this hijacking of spontaneous philanthropy by Starbucks.