With Calhoun standing as but one example, I have thus become increasingly convinced that performance historians would do well to plumb the archive of middling failures as we continue to examine what the making of performance actually means at a given historical moment.
Rebuilt for the first modern Games, in 1896, the ancient stadium on adjacent hills in the middle of downtown, needed no major refurbishing, standing as an example of the convergence of the old and the new.
standing as the global measure of system outage.
Six years and two career-threatening injuries since O'Neal caught Ewing's attention, the Knicks' aging center is still standing as an example of just how pride can be turned into a miracle drug.
And as a piece of prose it is as near-miraculous as the journey it describes, standing as a perfect example of Cheever's description of fiction as "the telling of lies … a sort of sleight-of-hand that displays our deepest feelings about life".
betaworks has been around for almost ten years now, standing as a leading example of how a startup studio should run.
Church buildings are invaluable historical resources, with some standing as the best examples of our architectural achievements.
Gladbach's class and creativity, however, soon exposed Hertha's standing as the most striking example of a 'false 5' position since the 40-year-old sweeper Lothar Matthäus set up shop in no-man's land at Euro 2000.
The United States is supposed to rise above and set an example for the rest of the world, standing as a beacon of freedom and independence.
"This has been one of the best examples of a nation standing as one to immunize its children against the disease," said Mr. Arsenault.
For example, one felt he was more productive standing because he was previously in the military where decisions were literally made by thinking "on your feet"; another remarked he was \used to carrying out administrative tasks standing as he had worked in retail.
