Germany, he said, would not stand for "rotten, more rotten or even worse compromises.
Failure to protect the 14th Amendment would compromise many of the values that we stand for as a nation.
This compromises your balance and, if you have to stand for a very long time, can even cause you to faint.
You've got to — if you're going into a negotiation, you've got to stand for your position, know they're going to stand for theirs, and then recognize that there's going to be some compromise.
The National Abortion Federation agrees with Peggy Loonan that now is the moment to be clear about what the pro-choice movement stands for ("Don't Compromise on Abortion," Op-Ed, Jan . 15.
As it stands for images, the compromise between size and quality holds for animation also.
He does not say so, but I assume that the Liberal Democrats stood for "reason, evidence and compromise" in his world view; but who are the forces of "grievance and unreasoned populism" now running rampant, I wonder?
The causes Clegg has stood for all his life – Europeanism, cosmopolitanism, liberal compromise – are in disarray.
Squinting through Fremantle sun, raging against everything in his path, Keely is fallen not because he has compromised the things he stands for but because he would not.
The PC in his analogy stands for both traditional Wall Street research, which he calls "conflicted, compromised and constrained," and the financial media.
