Sentence examples for stand for idea from inspiring English sources

This "what does he stand for?" idea.

Words, Locke says, stand for ideas in the mind of the person who uses them.

There is a clear connection between Book II and III in that Locke claims that words stand for ideas.

Propositions consist of words "which stand for Ideas concerning which some agreement is affirm'd or deny'd" (Essay, pp. 3 4).

During the same period, artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis and others were working in the Symbolist mode, rejecting the idea that artists should report on the world of the senses and instead finding forms and images that stood for ideas beyond the material realm.

Others claimed that their own employees would not stand for the idea of serving black customers.

"I will not stand for the idea that a tweet like this was antisemitism," Epshteyn said.

They stand for the idea that what's in a glass is more than the methodology of the winemaker and the equipment used.

Cohen came to stand for the idea of Wall Street as a crazy profit machine for those who work there, at the exclusion of everyone else.

Sadly we realize that Wikileaks does not stand for this idea anymore," said a message posted by the group on online text-sharing website, Pastebin.

We don't stand for the idea of people taking away our freedoms.