Sentence examples for that stood him from inspiring English sources

That stood him in good stead when Trump was considering names for his cabinet in November.

That stood him in good stead at Villanova University, where, his mother said, he found a "real community of friends," and at Cantor Fitzgerald.

That stood him in good stead when he lost the ministerial status and limo in 2001, and again in 2012 when he separated from his long-term partner Dorian Jabri, sold their home in Islington, moved to fashionable Clerkenwell and started living alone again for the first time in 25 years.

He discovered in Eric Sykes the first of many fine writers, commisioning from him the scripts which, building on his persona, invented the "one-man situational comedy" ("I've had a shocking day") that stood him in such good stead for the rest of his career.

What he does not say – how could he? – was that the forms in which he gave dramatic expression to this sense could be enlarged manifestations of confinement, that the hard-won craftsmanship that stood him in good stead at the New Yorker worked against his being able to plumb the complex depths of his being.

As professor of political philosophy at Glasgow, Dudley demonstrated great kindness and decency, but also a shrewdness about people that stood him in good stead as head of department and as warden of the Queen Margaret hall of residence.

That stands him in good stead as Malaysia hunkers down for an extended, unwanted, repeat performance.

And that stands him in good stead in his latest movie, "The Emperor's New Clothes," a romantic comedy about a fictional plot to return Napoleon to power.

The careful diction that stands him in good stead in lieder singing here seemed to be a kind of net, holding in his voice and emotions until the final, tantalizing phrase of his Act III farewell.

It's hard to play that way and that has stood him in good stead throughout his career.

Early on, Lazar hit upon three rules that have stood him in good stead for over fifty years.