Sentence examples for stands to fall from inspiring English sources

But if all goes as planned, the population of bedbugs across the city stands to fall in the years ahead as communities of insects are drenched in pesticides, yanked from crevices and scorched in dryers.

The officials with the most authority to acknowledge and address the problem are those who stand to fall hardest should it be fully exposed.

Here are some of the season's best transition pieces, built to stand up to fall -- and even serve double duty come spring.

Staley expects the number of jobs at Barclays – which stands at 130,000 – to fall by at least 44,000 as he pulls back from Africa.

Its total now stands at 275,000 to fall behind Coldplay's Ghost Stories, Paolo Nutini's Caustic Love and Ellie Goulding's Halycon as the fourth biggest-selling album of the year to date.

"To stand still is to fall behind," the governor said in a statement.

God notes that he has made Adam and Eve "sufficient to have stood, though free to fall".

Knowledge of the good is sufficiency to have stood, but freedom to fall is all.

By November, she could no longer stand independently, tended to fall backward, and developed a high steppage "cock-like" gait.

Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Firstly by the vainglorious claim 'I made him just and right', and second by a wonderful analysis of freedom: 'sufficient to have stood, though free to fall'.