Sentence examples for stand for progress from inspiring English sources

In that sense, Lever House can stand for progress still.

Setting goals and achieving them is part of why Douglas was invited to be part of Team USA sponsor Citi's Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympic Games Stand For Progress initiative.

The bulldozer pushing over the pine tree stands for progress.

August Hecksher, who resigned as its director last spring, expressed concern that the name, which once stood for progress, was becoming retrogressive.

She is just a little penguin-shaped robot, but both symbolically and practically, she stands for progress, achievement and national pride.

Most of his scattered "congregation," however, were poor whites and blacks, plain people alienated from mainstream Christianity and wary of institutions, churches and governments that stood for progress but that in their view achieved little.

Even then, it is fraught with technical difficulties, it cannot fully protect the Libyan rebels against Colonel Qaddafi's machinegunners and it is liable to "mission creep" (see article).That makes it still more important for international involvement to have the backing of the Arab and Muslim world, especially the section of it that stands for progress and justice.

To these young people, Kazantip represents something more than just a weekend or two away from work: it stands for progress and a brave, bold new future where the sky is the limit and the world is yours - as long as the bare-chested leader is cool with it.

It was time for me to see a great country that contributed to art and technology for generations and stood for progress, peace, and freedom.

The "S-P" stood for "special progress"; we would squish three grades into two years.

White flight had emptied a great metropolis that once stood for industrial progress.