Sentence examples for to stand single from inspiring English sources

Backstage — well, there isn't really a backstage, just a narrow and dark place for people to stand, single file, before coming out through one of the two doors or a curtain, just to mix it up.

But it was the decision by the two main unionist parties to stand a single candidate, uniting their votes, that ended her chances of retaining her seat – though the result, in the end, was closer than many expected.

But even though successive British leaders have vowed to combat child poverty — Tony Blair promised to eradicate it, Gordon Brown called it a "scar on the soul of Britain" and David Cameron pledged to stand by single mothers — such a broad effort is unlikely when Britain is leading a race among western countries to trim public expenditure and debt.

The subject was asked to stand in single limb support with the hands on the waist, the knee straight and the foot positioned close to the edge of a 20 cm high step.

Men were forced to stand in a single position for hours on end; they were deprived of sleep for days, and subjected to sensory deprivation through incessant "white noise".

He claimed to stand by "every single word" of an influential and controversial dossier setting out the government's view of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in September 2002, and brushed aside as "churlish" less flattering testimonies given to the inquiry earlier.Mr Campbell denies pressing intelligence officials to "beef up" the evidence against Iraq.

The same distinction can be made using only the contemporary "□" to stand for the single kind of necessity.

I want to stand with every single child endangered by Joseph Kony and the LRA but I am not about to take my moral directives from Jason Russell.

Immediately after the second seated BP measurement, the participant was asked to stand and a single SBP and DBP measurement was obtained, using the same monitor with the cuff at heart level.

It may not be entirely coincidental that the three EU countries that have chosen to stand aside from the single currency for now Britain, Sweden and Denmark have gone further than most to put their pensions systems on a sound financial basis.

He told the BBC that he was "tempted" to stand as winning a single seat in Westminster would "completely transform" the party's prospects, but had to consider whether it was the right opportunity.