Sentence examples for stand on behalf of from inspiring English sources

The importance and strength of what the people of Wootton Bassett do is that they stand on behalf of the nation and of so many people around the world in silent tribute to the heroism of the fallen.

The UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Godfrey Bloom, is also to stand on behalf of his party.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Zen's 12 page flyers also functioned as petitions urging fans to stand on behalf of the First Amendment and its guarantee of 'the right of the people to peacefully assemble'".

She's taking a stand on behalf of other artists who might follow suit.

But we have to take a stand on behalf of the fans, the club and the game.

He took an equally determined stand on behalf of other, much better-heeled, people whom he felt were being ill-treated simply because of their race.

Holder told an audience at a Human Rights Campaign gala in New York that on Monday he would issue a memo directing that "in every proceeding, and in every place where a member of the Department of Justice stands on behalf of the United States" they would "strive to ensure that same-sex marriages receive the same privileges, protections, and rights as opposite-sex marriages under federal law".

We imagine that people who take stands on behalf of those less fortunate than themselves are all a bit like those hypocrites in Matthew, standing on the street corners of the internet, telling us to stop buying conventionally grown potatoes and start using racially sensitive terminology before themselves going home, eating McDonald's french fries and swearing at the television.

"In every courthouse, in every proceeding and in every place where a member of the Department of Justice stands on behalf of the United States, they will strive to ensure that same-sex marriages receive the same privileges, protections and rights as opposite-sex marriages under federal law," Holder said.

He stood on behalf of individual liberty, but saw America's role as the famed "city on a hill".

"This means that, in every courthouse, in every proceeding, and in every place where a member of the Department of Justice stands on behalf of the United States - they will strive to ensure that same-sex marriages receive the same privileges, protections, and rights as opposite-sex marriages under federal law," Holder will say in a speech at the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday.