Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for their [noun pl] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 7 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 8 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 9 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |