Sentence examples for with high standing from inspiring English sources

Despite being a Sunni with high standing in the government, he never joined the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein, Mr. Araji said.

Teachers not only didn't bother to defend me, they would often chime in with comments about my appearance, maybe in an effort to impress the more popular kids, who were usually the offspring of the grown townspeople with high standing in the community.

They make the point that the debt limit is a public law, not a part of the Constitution with higher standing over other public laws.

Agricultural research and technology can change this, and we can develop high yielding cropping systems with higher standing biomass: 'High Density (or High Biomass) Cropping Systems' (Weiner et al. 2001).

In these cases, evolution did not appear to be adaptive, though there may have been scope for adaptive evolution if experiments had been longer or started with higher standing genetic variation in fitness.

Reports from the field indicate that the families affected this year are even worse off than those affected by the previous floods, with higher standing water and more devastation across a smaller area.

Microsoft and Zune fans are saying that the Zune is so hot that it's making babies with Angelina Jolie but Michael Gartenberg and Steven Levy, two gadget wonks with a high standing in the tech community, are saying it's horrible.

Combined with the high standing genetic variation in natural populations, this suggests that the potential to adapt to changing conditions is present in marine phytoplankton, although the relative importance of adaptation by local populations versus replacement by immigrant types has yet to be established.

(G.nP) In such statements, the demands of managing physicians were not associated with the managers' strategies or behaviour, but rather with the physicians' high standing in the organisation.

It is up to debate what information is more valuable to a pollinator: (1) identifying flowers with a potentially high standing crop of nectar (mostly achieved through floral traits indirectly linked to rewards; e.g., 17) or (2) accurate detection of nectar presence/absence (mostly achieved through floral traits directly linked to rewards; e.g., 23).

Deschamps, who has had the unenviable task of representing the U.S. there since the break with Washington last year, has because of his high standing with Sihanouk during this touchy period, probably done a better job for the U.S. than it could have done for itself.