Sentence examples for standing to take from inspiring English sources

When she announced she was standing to take over from interim Labour leader Harriet Harman last week, she refused to admit the last Labour government spent too much in the run up to the financial crisis.

Asked who would have standing to take legal action in the interests of an endangered species once the legislation had changed, he said that would be determined by the normal provisions of the common law.

Some managers would decide it politic not to ask a playwright of Tony Marchant's standing to take a course largely intended for production staff; others are so memo-obedient they would order Sir Tom Stoppard to sit the exam.

Keim said if a ministerial directive interfered "with the board's carrying out of its statutory duties, the board, in the name of the CEFC, would have the necessary standing to seek relief in the appropriate forum", meaning the board would have standing to take legal action.

According to lawyers expert in the operations of the EPBC Act, the amendments proposed by the government would leave both environmental and farm groups bogged in lengthy and expensive legal proceedings to decide whether or not they had the "standing" to take legal action, and will mean many of them wouldn't.

This one has the looks of a slug-out contest with the last team left standing to take up a spot in the third round.

Patty is standing by to take your money.

Stockbrokers will be standing by to take your call.

The operators were not standing by to take my call.

Ashcroft tweeted "Standing by to take over as foreign secretary......

Administrators are standing by to take over the 45 stores.