Sentence examples for stands a high from inspiring English sources

Recent figures show he stands a high chance of entering the criminal justice system, and even more so if he gets expelled (with pupils thrown out aged 12 four times more likely to go to jail).

A FEW blocks east of the old Checkpoint Charlie, stands a high school once named after Theodor Winter, a German anti-fascist who spent World War II in the Soviet Union.

There is a good reason for that: the economy is in terrible shape and stands a high possibility of getting worse.

Our study revealed that one out of five low-income urban dwellers stands a high chance of having CVD within 10 years.

A baby born to a woman who suffers depression during pregnancy stands a higher likelihood of becoming a depressed adolescent than does his or her nursery-mate born to a nondepressed mother, a new study finds.

At one end stood a high, king-size bed, done up in white Pratesi linens.

The assaults were also likely to be acts of self-destruction by the attackers, he said, because such crimes stand a high chance of drawing a death sentence.

Carchemish was defended by thick double walls with strong towered gates, and in the centre of town stood a high citadel overlooking the river.

It is an important mechanism, but one that is possible to live without in modern times, when people no longer stand a high risk of such injury.

Ritchie stood a high cross back from the left and when Ryan Tunnicliffe leapt to block with his arm, the Fulham midfielder felt the ball hit his hand.

The method also enables the accelerator to stand a high beam load.