Sentence examples for stand winning from inspiring English sources

At least one bettor, writing on a Twitter account said to be that of the Canadian journalist Glen McGregor, posted a picture of his computer screen showing the message and quoted the Web site's head oddsmaker, Russ Candler, as saying, "I can't stand winning unfairly".

Stand wins Fringe bid The Edinburgh Fringe shuffle continues apace.

Soldiers, rifles raised, barred their way, but his gutsy stand won him admirers.

Still, his stand won him credit with the traditional school of German banking.As a manager, he is not great, but "all right with good people around him," says a former colleague.

Some Democrats want to take a stand, win or lose, for any option that could depict Republicans as patrons of the richest taxpayers, at the expense of blocking continued tax cuts for the middle class.

Eisenhower's stand won tremendous goodwill for the U.S. in the Arab world.

This stand won him admirers with the emerging Northern Peace Democrats, but others saw the stand as further evidence of Pierce's southern bias.

In September, the team set a major league record that still stands, winning 26 straight games, but they were 59-62 before that and dropped four of five immediately afterward to finish the season at 86-66 — good for only fourth place.

And a fan in the stands won a year's supply of Vlasic pickles.

Everyone on both teams and in the stands won that afternoon.

Barcelona stand for winning with style, the right way.