Sentence examples for standing itself from inspiring English sources

Seven years ago we were 15 feet under water and at the bottom of every list that mattered, and really you can see that this city has come together and done a miraculous job of standing itself back up and using the Super Bowl not only as an event but as an opportunity to rebuild.

"But this city, standing by itself, can't bridge the out-year gaps.

Standing by itself, such a poem may be called a distich.

So the pilot decides to keep moving, and soon spots another tank, standing by itself in a field.

Syria's Foreign Ministry, once in a modest villa in a residential neighborhood, is now a cavernous white cake of a building standing by itself.

Standing by itself is the Complaynte of Scotland (1548 49), which is both an exposition of Scottish patriotism and an experiment in the various usages of Scots prose.

Left standing by itself is the United States, wondering how to cope with its diminished status in a region that it has dominated for almost 60 years.

"That is one case where you have 215 standing by itself," he said, referring to Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the statute that a secret court ruling has said permits the vast collection of calling logs.

A hinting story, Swartwood explains, should do in twenty-five words what it could do in twenty-five hundred, that is, it "should be complete by standing by itself as its own little world".

Standing by itself, that the NSA would break into a private corporation to steal individual encryption key might seem shocking.

Yet it seems more true to say that a divided nation is standing against itself.