For while "set" stood for stability and sturdy conservatism, so the newfangled, richest-of-all-today's-words "run" is all about ambition and optimism and the possibilities of the future.
Mrs Chan, a loyal servant under British rule, stood for stability and continuity: qualities almost as important to the Chinese as patriotism.The Chinese continued to recognise the importance of Mrs Chan even when Mr Tung wanted to be rid of her.
America does not simply stand for stability, or the absence of conflict, no matter what the price; we stand for the more lasting peace that can only come through opportunity and freedom for people everywhere.
The flask is clamped to a ring stand for stability (Fig. 1-5).
This stands for electronic stability programme, which is nothing particularly new, but Skoda seem to have taken this to a whole new level - an Arctic level.
"His name stands for euro stability and I'm glad that he's continuing," Mrs Merkel said after news of the new line-up emerged.
Here, a lower M value stands for higher stability of gene expression [ 26, 27].
In Table 10, the letters r, s, and u stand for rational stability, sequential stability (SEQ), and unstable, respectively.
Germany's economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, complained that while the E.C.B. stood for monetary stability, the U.S. Federal Reserve bank had run a lax monetary policy whose "economic effect has gone pop".
It stands for democracy, fairness, stability, quality, meticulousness, punctuality, thrift, efficiency, openness and all sorts of other desirable things.
