Sentence examples for uniforms stand from inspiring English sources

In Brasilia, where guards in archaic uniforms stand by his inverted paraboloid arches, he pulled off an improbable combination of ceremony and futurism.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Citadel, which like all military colleges has struggled both to find and to keep undergraduates willing to wear uniforms, stand at attention and march in parades, has never been much of a basketball power.

Grozny is quiet and bland, with well-paved boulevards running through its center; there is still a faint air of menace — men in black uniforms stand with automatic rifles on many street corners — but the city's flashier attractions, like a man-made lake with a light show, seem whimsical and family-friendly.

Proud portrait photographs of Murphy and his co-stars in World War I uniforms stand on shelves.

Everything is OK!" Within minutes, someone shouts, "Police!" Before us a dozen officers in blue camouflage uniforms stand with locked arms, forming a human chain across the sidewalk.

"This is an old thing, the Dinka and the Nuer," he says, while a soldier in the background reads dozens of names off a roll call as conscripts in mismatched uniforms stand in front of him.

Outside the cathedral, police officers sweating in blue uniforms stood watch over the people and visitors of New York, so accustomed to paying tribute by standing behind barricades.

Paramilitary police officers in green uniforms stood beneath a nearby overpass, next to a fire truck.

Outside, six Japanese war veterans, wearing their old uniforms, stood together.

Four junior naval officers in brilliant white uniforms stood guard with swords pointing downward.

Clusters of police officers in green uniforms stood in every aisle and at each exit.