Example sentences of "the [noun] stand up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 2 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 4 | ‘ She had not the spirit to stand up for her own mother . |
| 5 | His group was a homespun affair and he wanted to support people inspired solely by the love of writing and music , and with the verve to stand up for themselves in print . |
| 6 | If a chap had n't the guts to stand up for his own beastliness where was he ? |
| 7 | 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 . |