Example sentences of "standing up to [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dubcek was not as popular at home where some still blamed him for not standing up to the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and therefore being responsible for a 23year military occupation by Soviet forces . |
| 2 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 3 | Scores on this image ( standing up to the USSR ) were never very predictable for any politician . |
| 4 | If doubt can conjure up images of heroism ( the David of Doubt standing up to the Goliath of Lies ) , it can just as easily represent what is most cowardly , indecisive and dictatorial in us all . |
| 5 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |