Sentence examples for to stand only from inspiring English sources

He asked those who supported him to stand; only nine did so.

He agreed to stand only because he and like-minded veteran Republicans could not find a local candidate.

While both sides of this debate have a moral foundation upon which to stand, only one side tries to insist that the other live according to its morals.

Its tiny head was high, and it struggled to stand, only to collapse like a house of cards, as its mother began to wash it vigorously.

The sideline stretches from end zone to end zone, but players and coaches are permitted to stand only between the 30-yard lines, creating a green-and-white village.

Cameron's response was to reclaim his personal authorship of the party's 2005 general election manifesto for Michael Howard, usually an embarrassment for a leader who wants to stand only for change.

Our communities and economy stand only to gain when our young people are better equipped to problem solve and think critically.

More to the point, though, poverty poses difficult challenges for education in America, and as poverty figures grow, those challenges stand only to grow more complex.

[8] Thus original authors stand only to lose by having their conclusions challenged.

For a five-mile stretch, the marsh levees stand only three to six feet high.

Simon Hayes, former chairman of Hampshire Police Authority, defeated ex-Conservative minister Michael Mates in Hampshire and Isle of Wight, saying he had not expected to win and stood only to give people a chance "to keep party politics out of policing".