"Empire obtained by force is un-republican," Senator Charles Sumner wrote in the mid-nineteenth century, for example, and offensive to the principle "according to which all just government stands only on the consent of the governed".
It can stand only if two legs are on the floor and two are on the wall, resulting in an inherently martial posture that resembles a squat wrestler caught between a rock and a hard place, straining so as not to be crushed by them.
Meanwhile, Garcia, though ranked 15th in the world, has no victories this year on the PGA Tour and stands only 66th on the money list.
Or, better still, 'I'll say this and the pictures will say that, which contradicts it.'" He compares the text of picture books to lyrics of songs, which can only very rarely stand alone on the page as poems.
Ferguson had overhauled his team at this small and atmospheric ground, which has stands only on three sides.
But then Republicans used a misstatement in Mr. Gore's comment -- the vice president said Kailey "has to stand" when she had stood for only one day on the ninth day of classes -- to question the vice president's credibility.
He made the decision to stand down only on the morning after the vote before, he confides, when we meet in a country house hotel 40 minutes from his Aberdeenshire home.
Chávez stands not only on the ladder of high oil prices.
In 1994, it stood not only on the brink of democracy but also on the verge of chaos.
Mr. Burns says in the episode that the puppy that stands up only on its hind legs reminds him of Rory Calhoun, an American actor who lived from 1922 to 1999.
