Sentence examples for which could stand from inspiring English sources

One panel – which could stand for many more – shows Ware's heroine standing naked beside the bed, arms by her sides, her underwear pooled on the floor beside her, as if offering herself.

Sebag Montefiore's prologue, it is true, is a masterly essay on Russian history, which could stand by itself.

Closer to the centre is another, in Poggioreale, which could stand for hundreds of others throughout the region.

Readers had to recognize hundreds of symbols, some of which could stand for either a word or a sound, an ambiguity that probably slowed down decoding.

Salinger did write several stories about the war years, at least two of which could stand alongside those he eventually collected in "Nine Stories".

He used this advantage to put together a political force which could stand up to the only other force with a comparable advantage: the Muslim Brotherhood.

It was surrounded by a 10 feet-wide platform, or promenade, which was elevated approximately 1 foot above the ice surface and upon which spectators could stand or skaters could rest.

It's because they didn't have a platform on which they could stand.

It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand".

It begins with a cup of onion soup in which you could stand a spoon, and toast slathered in bone-marrow butter.

The two parties would jointly pick one man and one woman and then agree which candidate could stand in either constituency.