Example sentences of "stand up for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book explores the lengths to which a community , particularly a Christian one , should go to stand up for its rights when faced with oppression . |
| 2 | Where the unions fail in their duties to black workers they must be challenged to stand up for their rights . |
| 3 | Young people have got to stand up for their rights Alexander . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's feeble , Jess , and silly , but I 've never been one to stand up for my rights , so to speak . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stand up for your rights , Aries , but do n't dig your toes in so much that you create more problems for yourself . |
| 10 | Stand up for your SUSA ! |
| 11 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | We think the Writers Internationale should stand up for her rights . ’ |
| 14 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 15 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 16 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 17 | Standing up for your rights again , I see ? ’ |
| 18 | perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics . |
| 19 | Therefore , we could spotlight that here was a writer standing up for his rights . ’ |
| 20 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 21 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |
| 22 | I wanted to pick someone who saw herself as part of the community and yet stood up for her rights . |
| 23 | The 35-year-old gave birth to his son a year ago and stood up for her husband during his trial . |