The phrase "stand for the position" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to take a stance or advocate for a specific viewpoint or opinion. Example: The politician's speech clearly outlined where he stands for the position on immigration reform.
Liam Byrne had said he planned to resign from his seat to stand for the position.
Roger Burden's belated declaration that he may stand for the position of full-time chairman of the Football Association has produced a useful benefit for the acting chair.
Lord Coe is set to become the next chairman of the British Olympic Association after confirming he would accept an invitation to stand for the position.
Around 20,000 voters in his constituency responded to a local ballot organised by the MP, with around 79 per cent saying he should stand for the position and 3,569 saying he should not.
I had said before that should Mahdavi Kani stand for the position, I would withdraw to prevent any rift," Rafsanjani was quoted by Iran's state ISNA news agency as saying.
Shashank Manohar is expected to stand for the position, which will have a two-year term, but would need to step down as chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India if elected.
However, when Marty stands for the position of union president, he finds the odds and the election stacked against him.
In 1983 Les unsuccessfully stood for the position of general secretary of the NUM, having campaigned as a centrist candidate between Peter Heathfield from the left and John Walsh from the right.
If Adams stood for the position of head of state he would undoubtedly face serious questions about his alleged IRA past, including a number of atrocities during the Troubles.
where j v stands for the position of the v th pilot OFDM symbol.
Aiming at the random distribution nodes, the control vector (individual) L = (l 1, l 2, ⋯, l i, ⋯, l N ) of wireless sensor node is expressed in a binary coded form, which stands for the position of all sensor nodes in the target monitoring area A, where the l i value is 1 or 0, which separately correspond to the active or sleep of the i sensor node.
