Sentence examples for standing one's ground from inspiring English sources

Standing one's ground is one thing.

It made the thought of starting over in another country less frightening -- and certainly not as frightening as standing one's ground in the midst of a senseless war.

But where Green Day's American Idiot was something of a polemic, American Slang is a more internal record, concerned with standing one's ground, mulling over bygones and fretting over girls.

For example, at the beginning of Plato's Laches the character Laches suggests that courage consists of standing one's ground in battle.

"Racism 2.0 is busily working in the shadows, gerrymandering away voting rights and creating legislation that makes pre-emptively shooting dead a young black man who makes you nervous synonymous with standing one's ground," he says.

Young people were recruited by elders in the early teens to join and taught to protect the reputation of their gang, even if that meant standing one's ground when grossly outnumbered.

One minute, you are standing on solid ground; the next, you are dancing on mist.

I was finally back to standing on solid ground.

By the way, one of my favorite lines in "Stranded... .. is, "If you're standing on the high ground, there's no where to go but down".

For you are standing on holy ground.

One of its best moments is Géricault's "Horse Frightened by a Storm," a mostly brown and black image of a dappled appaloosa standing on dappled ground.