Example sentences of "stand up [prep] 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 | This helped give workers the confidence to stand up to their employers — to quit or strike or be sacked seemed less daunting . |
| 6 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 7 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | No other ship could stand up to their guns , but some sailors thought they might be defeated by the new weapon of the torpedo . |
| 10 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 11 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 12 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 13 | There are some people who get bored who can just fall asleep , standing up with their eyes open . |
| 14 | Surfers despised bodyboarders for not standing up on their boards : they were n't walking on water , they were wallowing in it . |
| 15 | In pre-European times , surfing was practised from Easter Island to New Guinea , in Micronesia and Melanesia , although it was only in Hawaii and Tahiti , whence the Hawaiians had come , that riders stood up on their boards . |
| 16 | In it backbiters stood up to their knees . |
| 17 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |