Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 2 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 3 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 4 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 5 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 6 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 7 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 8 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 9 | But , but I mean I suppose if we take sense of standing up against , it 's saying , and it stands up against , and it withstands against many sicknesses and evils and inserted into the middle of that , and succoureth it by virtue , so it helps by its goodness to withstand sicknesses and evils . |
| 10 | It must be impossible to stand up against it , he wrote , impossible to draw breath before it . |
| 11 | They forfeit the right to stand up against them . |
| 12 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 13 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 14 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 15 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 17 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 19 | The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong . |
| 20 | Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope . |
| 21 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 22 | Look and see 'ow they stands out against t'brown o' t'earth . |
| 23 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 24 | If we want to have that freedom again — to stand out against the trend and , if necessary , to be on our own — then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy , with the decisions made by this country alone . |
| 25 | Please stand over against the wall . |
| 26 | How , they argue , would Alice , or The Wind in the Willows , stand up against such scrutiny ? |
| 27 | As we can see rather graphically here , the difference in if you stand back against that wall if you would very kindly , erm you see here the difference in level between nineteen ninety |
| 28 | What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape . |
| 29 | Parents often stand out against troublesome behaviour for some time , only to give in eventually . |
| 30 | The last words of the song , ‘ singing sorrowless ’ , stand out against this current , but still wherever the lovers go it is ‘ away ’ , ‘ in the forest ’ , maybe the forest of mortality and final death . |