Sentence examples for things stand for the from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pawlenty kicked off the conference with a somewhat gloomy appraisal of where things stand for the Republican Party.

In the second part of the "Homeland" discussion, we talked about what Gansa and Gordon learned from Season 1 and where things stand for the characters when Season 2 begins.

And that was how things stood for the best part of a century.

As things stand for them, it is probably cheaper to deal with the occasional drought.

Here's where things stand for separated families.

Roughly speaking, synecdoche (sin-EK-d'kee) is when a part of a thing stands for the whole ("nice wheels"), or the whole for a part ("the hospital did what it could").

In this stuffy little all-too-human universe, words did not stand for given things; on the contrary, things stood for given words— words in the Bible or in one of the treatises of Aristotle.

This is how things stood for eons.

The moment we have symbols for things, we have the possibility of making symbols for the things that stand for the symbols of things.

Meanwhile, more than $2 trillion in the various stimulus and bailout proposals may force the government to raise more money by trying to sell even more bonds in a market that is already saying, "Enough!" As things stand, the outlook for the dollar couldn't be worse, and that should give investors pause before jumping into the stock market thinking the storm has passed.

As things stand now, for example, the families of the 37 Port Authority police officers will collect roughly one-third less money in charitable assistance than the families of 343 New York firefighters.