Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the unions fail in their duties to black workers they must be challenged to stand up for their rights . |
| 2 | Young people have got to stand up for their rights Alexander . |
| 3 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 4 | Paul Twyman , of North Thanet said : ‘ The BMA are a trade union and they are entitled to stand up for their members ’ interests , but they are not entitled to abuse their professional position by deliberately scaremongering and frightening elderly patients . ’ |
| 5 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 6 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 7 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 9 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 10 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |