Sentence examples for stand shortly from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bloomberg took the stand shortly before 10 a.m. inside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Centre Street, six blocks north of his usual workplace at City Hall.

"I love her very much," Mildred Harris, beaming toward her daughter-in-law, said this morning from the witness stand shortly before the defense rested its case.

Mr. Chapman took his brother, one of his sons, his agent and a cameraman down to Puerto Vallarta and poured Mace into Mr. Luster's eyes in a loud scuffle at a taco stand shortly before dawn on Wednesday.

Among those reading the names was John Helm, the ITV football commentator who famously described the unfolding chaos as flames quickly engulfed the wooden stand shortly before half-time at an end-of-season clash with Lincoln City.

The only challenge -- a gentle one -- came from Mr. Harris's former colleague Jerry Ceppos, Knight Ridder's vice president for news, who stood shortly after the applause died down and defended the quality of Knight Ridder's journalism.

The anecdotes lay down the law as it stood shortly before the time Booker Wright, a black waiter, made the fateful decision to explain to a documentary crew for NBC News not only what he served white customers but also how he felt about their varied treatment of him.

One major worry for them is the condition of playmaker Kallum Higginbotham, who was taken off at half-time and appeared in the stands shortly after with crutches by his side.

Shots rang out from the stands shortly after 11 p.m., scattering hundreds of basketball fans, including former New York Knicks star Nate Robinson.

It's a sharp contrast to where Soros stood shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, when he expressed criticism of the Obama administration before a group of donors at a private meeting and suggested they pledge their money elsewhere.

Haqqani managed to defuse the resulting furore and Mullen, whose intervention was viewed by some US officials as not entirely helpful, stood down shortly afterwards.

Last week he came out to defend Kerry Smith, one of his parliamentary candidates who stood down shortly after the emergence of taped remarks in which he used derogatory terms about homosexuals and Chinese people.