Sentence examples for stand to pick from inspiring English sources

Under Iowa Democrats' complicated rules you get to vote again if your first-choice candidate fails to clear a 15% hurdle, so Mr Obama may stand to pick up a good number of additional votes.

They and partner company Sprint stand to pick up quite a bit of market share by offering more competitive 4G performance, all while flying under the banner of "the nation's first 4G network".

4. Cheddar Cheese with Tomato Jam -- Farm Stand (Somewhere on Route 72, NJ) An hour or so from Banh Mis and Philly, we stopped at a New Jersey roadside farm stand to pick up some beach cooking provisions.

"I hope it's not true... for the sport of curling," said Norwegian skipper Thomas Ulsrud, whose team would stand to pick up the bronze if the doping result is confirmed.

The absent membership stands to pick up shares worth some £1.2bn in the summer flotation.

It still stands to pick up a handsome $1.6bn in deal break fees.

Against that, Labour's Debbie Abrahams stands to pick up votes from another of the region's many varieties of disgruntlement.

The party stands to pick up half a dozen seats in the House, adding a margin of comfort to its present 21-vote majority.

Often during the course of the day on Sunday, I will go out to the farm stands to pick up things that I think would be fun for lunch and dinner.

Mr. Toledo, who is ideologically between Mr. García and Ms. Flores, stands to pick up a majority of votes of either of his two principal opponents in a runoff.

Alternately called a "traitor," an "opportunist," and "Brutus" for overtaking his political patron, Hollande, he now stands to pick up voters who find Fillon too conservative or corrupt, Hamon too quixotic, or the National Front too nationalist.