Example sentences of "stand up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 2 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 3 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 4 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 5 | That can often mean standing up for the client and criticising the system , ’ he says . |
| 6 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 7 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 8 | He then stood up for the sentence , his hands on the dock rail . |
| 9 | Deeply committed to the pursuit of mathematics and the physical sciences , he stood up for the universities when they were attacked by vituperative radicals such as Cromwell 's army chaplain , John Webster . |