Sentence examples for unable to stand for from inspiring English sources

He was unable to stand for more than a few seconds.

Unable to stand for hours at a time, as his job required, he went on public assistance.

Unable to stand for very long because of a congenital affliction caused by overbreeding, Zoey is shaky as a newborn foal.

Kim Dotcom – who hosted the Moment of Truth event at Auckland town hall this week featuring Greenwald and, via internet links, Snowden and Julian Assange – is unable to stand for parliament as a non-citizen, so instead is "party visionary".

The victory would give him a public mandate to maintain ultimate power in the country as "National Leader" despite being unable to stand for a third term as president in March.

In the kitchen, Wilfred stood stooped at the sink, his arthritic hands as gnarled as ginger root, his body not cooperating, leaving him unable to stand for too long.

Since the individual species are unable to stand up for themselves, we need to do this for them, at home or elsewhere.

For one hour I sat, boiling inside, unable to stand up for myself and all that I'd discovered to be true.

And that's in the sense of bad behavior and bullying, trolling, things like that, but also in the sense of using those platforms to stand up for rights that they would otherwise be unable to stand up for.

And that's in the sense of bad behaviour and bullying, trolling, things like that, but also in the sense of using those platforms to stand up for rights that they would otherwise be unable to stand up for.

Vladimer said one day she'd like to run for office, but can't do that if she is unable to stand up for herself and women like her. "I hope to help the women who might have been in a similar situation and who left [politics] like I did, to realize that they're not alone and they're probably not done with all of the things they could get done in government," she said.