Sentence examples for stand to me from inspiring English sources

Consider the line "And everything depends upon how near you stand to me", (actually an adaptation of a lyric from Leonard Cohen's Take This Longing).

It's the inverse of "everything depends upon how near you stand to me", for if everything depends on that, what is left if instead the object of one's affections stays distant?

She makes it possible to remember when, in the words of one of a previous generation's great chroniclers of teen emotion, "everything depends upon how near you stand to me".

Third, ideal utilitarianism wrongly implies that the only morally significant relation 'in which my neighbours stand to me is that of being possible beneficiaries by my action' (RG 19; OJ 125).

Thus, in addition to our duty of benevolence, we have, as Ross claimed, special obligations to those who "stand to me in the relation of promisee to promiser, of creditor to debtor, of wife to husband, of child to parent, of friend to friend, of fellow countryman to fellow countryman, and the like" (19).

A few tried — halfheartedly — to defend the Administration's stand to me; most, including many government employees, were critical of it.

It stands to me as a masterpiece, a maverick, a quite extraordinary creation.

And it's really stood to me.

"He couldn't stand to have me score on him.

They can't stand to see me sleep all day.

Getting people I can't stand to like me is another.