Example sentences of "[verb] stand up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 2 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 3 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 4 | I like a bit of dominant , you know standing up for people in my woman . |
| 5 | Clarissa would have liked to stand up for Charles , but it came out as nothing more positive than ‘ Oh ’ . |
| 6 | Germans have stood up for freedom . |
| 7 | He did not understand my right hon. Friend 's point about how the Government have stood up for consumers by introducing competition and the right kind of legislation . |
| 8 | Those people have stood up for justice , despite the abuse that they received from the public . |