Sentence examples for standing post from inspiring English sources

Others were standing post at the wall, including Roni Aborn, left, of Huber Heights, Ohio, a member of Vietnam Veterans of America.

"Theresa could be thinking this does not really matter – that this prime minister won't be there, I won't be standing against him, I'll be standing post him one day.

Here they stand before us on a tall, vertically oriented video screen and talk, and have a terrific aura of alert self-containment and presence, like well-disciplined cops or marines standing post.

A standing post or a few patrols each day to the shops, a checkpoint or two at the town's edge with fighters checking identification, instructing their colleagues not to steal and stopping cars departing the town with stolen goods — these might have been enough.

But the escalating numerical projections, which have grown each year as the United States has deepened its involvement in the war, have yet to undo these forces' reputation for poor initiative, corruption, marginal skills and an enduring dependency on foreign supervision for everything from resupply and fire support to actions that should be routine, like standing post.

This is just a tiny sense of what I felt when I read these words from Lindsey Henke in her Still Standing post.

"The impact of the market uncertainty is especially pronounced in the London market as property in the capital has often been considered a safe haven investment... and London may lose that status if it enters an extensive period of figuring out its economic and political standing post-EU membership," the report said.

In their monasteries Syrian monks tied ropes around their abdomens and were then hung in an awkward position, and some were tied to standing posts.

A Secret Service official said Thursday that the agency could compensate at other times by stationing more agents at standing posts in various locations throughout the building.

Nests of rods wrapped in colourful yarn and embellished with hacky sacks, bells and pompoms are tangled together in an amorphous mass, which drips from the bannisters and wraps around the standing posts as you walk down the stairs.

Now reports suggest that Spring Airlines, a Chinese budget carrier, is trying to get approval for standing posts, to which passengers could be strapped, presumably in a similar fashion to a Wall of Death fairground ride, although the airline might want to think of a better name than that.It is doubtful that standing seats would get approval from regulators.