Sentence examples for we stand alone from inspiring English sources
Are we one of many – or do we stand alone?
To join the procession of states stretching backward and forward through time is to dispel the illusion that we stand alone in history, aloof from its wrack and turmoil.
We stand alone and in awe of the towering columns, picking our way over piles of now broken walls and arches, each rich with carvings - but here casually scattered across the ground in great piles.
"At times like this, we feel like we stand alone," said Rick Keys, a lieutenant with the North Charleston, S.C., Police Department, who drove 15 hours with three of his colleagues to attend Mr. Thompson's funeral.
You would expect the streets of London's Soho, first thing on a Friday, to be teeming with French game designers, Italian interior designers, German music execs, Bulgarian doctors, Portuguese waiters, but if you'd specified to a focus group that you also wanted the view from Norway ("We're doing well, we stand alone.
It was the subsequent Battle of Britain in which we stood alone against Hitler – and yet not quite alone.
Our own is of course the Finest Hour of 1940-41, ween "we stood alone", in Churchill's dubious phrase.
Since 1940 stands at the emotional heart of the Brexiteers' case – our finest hour was when we stood alone, while Europe succumbed to evil – this makes the Queen an impossibly powerful character witness for the outers.
High-profile supporters of the Brexit campaign have repeatedly said that they believe the UK would be able to realise a more "ambitious" and faster free trade deal if we stood alone.
"We stood alone, against an alliance of more than 30 armies, a third world country against the world's greatest superpower, and it is they who have been defeated, not us.
