Example sentences of "[prep] stand [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 2 | It offers adventure , contacts and understanding of other cultures and the opportunity of standing up to pressure . |
| 3 | Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them . |
| 4 | I thought : You prefer generalizations like ‘ after the revolution the workers will wake up filled with unbelievable joy ’ to standing up to fascists like Shadwell . |
| 5 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 6 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 7 | For even as he was being celebrated for standing up to China , Mr Patten was trying to transmit the message that there is a difference between trade and economics , on the one hand , and politics on the other . |
| 8 | Egyptians like an underdog ; many of them privately admit to thinking that , whatever his faults , Saddam has guts for standing up to Uncle Sam . |