Stands-in Sentence Examples

Within are some admirable specimens of encaustic tiles, and several monuments of the Vernon and Manners families; while an ancient runic roodstone stands in the churchyard.

Among the old houses one, dating from the 16th century, was the birthplace of Blaise Pascal, whose statue stands in a neighbouring square.

It is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, and contains the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent, executed by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about 1621, and the tomb of Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the market-place outside the church.

Curiously enough the cottage, a stone building, built by the same duke for Jean Jacques Rousseau, still stands in the park, while the ducal residence was burnt down by the sans-culottes.

It stands in a level plain on the left bank of the river Ouse, by which communication is provided with the Humber.

As it stands in these ancient laws, the Sabbath is not at all the unique thing which it was made to be by the Scribes.

It stands in a large park, the whole property being acquired by the corporation of Birmingham in 1864, when the mansion became a museum and art gallery.

It stands in the parade ground of the Brompton barracks, facing the Crimean arch.

Ceratella stands in much the same relation to the Stylasteridae that Hydractinia does to the Milleporidae, in both cases the chitinous perisarc being replaced by the solid coenosteum to which the hydrocorallines owe the second half of their name.

Yet the town is under no great industrial or other modernizing influence, and therefore stands in the position of an ancient shrine, drawing a pilgrimage of modern origin.

A notable method of borrowing power from another magic-wielding agency is simply to breathe its name in connexion with the spell that stands in need of reinforcement; as the name suggests its owner, so it comes to stand for his real presence.

It stands in relation to Danish history somewhat as Westminster Abbey does to English, containing the tombs of most of the Danish kings from Harold I.

The state capitol stands in a square 8 acres in extent, and has a central tower and dome 240 ft.

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, erected by the state, stands in the circle in the centre of the city, rises to a height of 284.5 ft.

Of this we have an interesting example in the vivid episode that preceded the battle of Ramoth-Gilead described in 1 Kings xxii., when Micaiah appears as the true prophet of Yahweh, who in his rare independence stands in sharp contrast with the conventional court prophets, who prophesied then, as their descendants prophesied more than two centuries later, smooth things.

The temple stands in the midst of what is called the gizrah or space severed off.

As an historian Prescott stands in the direct line of literary descent from Robertson, whose influence is clearly discernible both in his method and style.

Outside the Forbidden City the most noteworthy building is the Temple of Heaven, which stands in the outer or Chinese city.

The national monument to the Forefathers, designed by Hammatt Billings, and dedicated on the 1st of August 1889, thirty years after its corner-stone was laid, stands in the northern part of the town.

The cathedral of Curtea de Argesh, by far the most famous building in Rumania, stands in the grounds of a monastery, 12 m.

It stands in grounds 4000 acres in extent, which include the White and Black Lochs and the ruins of Castle Kennedy, finely situated on the isthmus between the lakes.

The episode now stands in another connexion, where it is certainly out of place.

Mercuriale stands in the principal square, and contains, besides paintings, some good carved and inlaid choir stalls by Alessandro dei Bigni.

She is also designated as Nin-Khar-sag, "Lady of the mountain," which name stands in some relationship to Im-Khar-sag, "storm mountain" - the name of the staged tower or sacred edifice to Bel at Nippur.

He died on the 2nd of April 1872, at New York, where his statue in bronze now stands in the Central Park.

The castle stands in the angle between the Ouse and the Foss immediately above their junction.

The Mexican Central gives it railway connexion with the national capital and other prominent cities of the Republic. Leon stands in a fertile plain on the banks of the Turbio, a tributary of the Rio Grande de Lerma, at an elevation of 5862 ft.

It thus stands in the closest relation to the rite of exorcism, of which it is the complement.

The present palace, which dates from 1803, stands in a beautiful park.

The old-fashioned mansion of East Coates, dating from the 17th century, still stands in the close, and is occupied by functionaries of the cathedral.

The medical school stands in Teviot Row, adjoining George Square and the Meadows.

Sweden stands in a different position.

The university stands in its own grounds on the site of Grose Farm, the scene of one of the earliest attempts at government farming.

It stands in public gardens; there are several other small open spaces; and some 70 out of the 217 acres of Victoria Park are within the borough.

The Christ is an elect one, who, as the Cathars (q.v.) put it, having been consoled or become a Paraclete in the flesh, stands in prayer with his hands outspread in the form of a cross, while the congregation of hearers or audientes adore the Christ in him.

Omitting that of Oppert, which to some extent stands in a category by itself, the systems fall into three groups.

A massive roodstone stands in the churchyard.

The town stands in a bowl-like depression, 8606 ft.

It thus stands in sharp contrast to the anthropology of Kant, which opposes human development conceived as the gradual manifestation of a growing faculty of rational free will to the operations of physical nature.

Sometimes he fixes the decoration himself, employing for that purpose a small kiln which stands in his back garden; sometimes he entrusts this part of the work to a factory.

It undoubtedly stands in close connexion with the name of the province of Bessarabia, which oriental chroniclers gave in olden times to the whole of Walachia.

Zahn's reasoned argument stands in contrast to the blind reliance on tradition shown by Macdonald, The Symbol of the Apostles, and the fanciful reconstruction of the primitive creed by Baeumer, Harnack or Seeberg.

Millet, born near Cherbourg, stands in the public garden, and there is an equestrian statue of Napoleon I.

As the amount of ash varies very considerably in different coals, and stands in no relation to the proportion of the other constituents, it is necessary in forming a chemical classification to compute the results of analysis after deduction of the ash and hygroscopic water.

The city stands in a deep ravine of the Andes at an elevation of about 12,400 ft.

A marble bust of him stands in the public library and his portrait hangs in the Marischal College.

Object stands in essential relation to subject, subject to object.

He stands in true succession to Richard Hooker in working out the principles of the English Reformation, though while Hooker argued mainly against Puritanism, Andrewes chiefly combated Romanism.

The traditions of Charles Augustus were well maintained by his grandson, the grand-duke Charles Alexander (1818-1901), whose statue now stands in the Karlsplatz.

A 9th-century roodstone stands in the village.

The detailed record stands in contrast to the brief account of his other buildings, e.g.

To the curial system, so evolved, and continually fortifying its position in the domains of theology, ecclesiastical law and politics, the episcopal system stands in diametrical opposition.

He stands in history as a bloodthirsty monster, yet in judging him one must remember the persecutions he endured and the terrible disease from which he suffered.

Costanzo stands in the spacious Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in the centre of the town.

He erected this into the Manor of Bentley and the manor house, built about this time, still stands in the village of Tottenville.

To it Sundanese stands in the relation that Low German holds to High German, and the Madurese in the relation of a strongly individualized dialect.

Bartholdi, stands in front of the castle; and in the Place d'Armes is the bronze group "Quand Meme" by Antonin Mercie, in memory of Thiers and of Colonel Pierre Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878), commandant of the place during the siege.

Here in the night Mrs Dustin, assisted by her nurse and by a captive English boy, tomahawked and scalped ten Indians (two men, the others children and women) and escaped down the river to Haverhill; a monument to her stands in City Hall Park.

First, it stands in the line of post-Aristotelian systems; it is, in fact, as a subjective philosophy, their logical completion.

A statue of the sailor La Perouse (1741-1788) stands in the square named after him.

A monument to the statesman stands in the market-place.

It must have reality for itself, a reality which stands in no'conflict with its ideal character, a reality the inner structure of which is ideal, a reality the root and spring of which is spirit.

The hall stands in Lister Park, and was opened immediately before, and used in connexion with, the industrial exhibition held here in 1904.

A statue of General Henri Bertrand (1773-1844) stands in one of the principal squares.

The Pliocene system stands in much the same stratigraphic relation to the Miocene as the Miocene does to the Eocene.

His house still exists, and his tomb, a sarcophagus supported by four short columns of red marble, stands in front of the church.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Q.V.) Stands In A Class By Himself.

Deliberate alteration is occasionally due to disapproval of what stands in the text or even to less creditable reasons.

In other words, a critic may deliberately pronounce that what stands in the text represents what the author wrote or might well have written, that it is doubtful whether it does, that it certainly does not, or, in the last event, that it may be replaced with certainty by something that does.

No alteration of a text, or emendation, is entitled to approval, unless in addition to providing the sense and diction required, it also presents a reading which the evidence furnished by the tradition shows might not improbably have been corrupted to what stands in the text.

A statue of Ovid stands in the main square of Constantza.

With the growing weakness and corruption of the Hasmonaean princes, and the alienation of a large part of the nation from their cause, the hope of a better kingship begins to appear in Judaea also; at first darkly shadowed forth in the Book of Enoch (chap. xc.), where the white steer, the future leader of God's herd after the deliverance from the heathen, stands in a certain contrast to the actual dynasty (the horned lambs); and then much more clearly, and for the first time with use of the name Messiah, in the Psalter of Solomon, the chief document of the protest of Pharisaism against its enemies the later Hasmonaeans.

His monument, by Alfred Stevens, stands in the nave of the cathedral.

The cathedral, a building of no special interest, stands in the great piazza close to the ducal palace.

To left and right, and at the back, dormitories are excavated opening on to this hall, and in the centre of the back, facing the entrance, an image of the Buddha usually stands in a niche.

Melbourne Hall, a building of the time of William III., surrounded by formal Dutch gardens, stands in a domain owned at an early date by the bishops of Carlisle, whose tithe barn remains near the church.

Thus Karl Christoph Vogt repeated the saying of the French physician Cabanis, " The brain is determined to thought as the stomach is to digestion, or the liver to the secretion of bile," in the form, " Thought stands in the same relation to the brain as the bile to the liver or the urine to the kidneys."

The Castel Sforzesco, or Castle of Milan, stands in the Parco Nuovo; it was built in 1450 by Francesco Sforza on the site of one erected by Galeazzo II.

Wentworth Castle, built in 1730 by Thomas, earl of Strafford, stands in a singularly beautiful park, and contains a fine collection of portraits of historical interest.

Among the prominent buildings are the Capitol, which is constructed of native sandstone and stands in a park of considerable beauty, the county court-house, St Peter's hospital, the governor's mansion and the city hall.

A fine statue to the empress Augusta, whose favourite residence was Coblenz, stands in the Luisen-platz.

Birmingham Sanatorium stands in the parish.

No definite conclusion can be drawn from the fact that the language stands in marked contrast to that of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, &c., since writings presumably more or less contemporary did not necessarily share the same characteristics (observe, for example, the prose parts of Job).

Remains of the wall are seen in the churchyard, and the West Gate still stands in the main street.

The old palace of the doges, originally a building of the 13th century, to which the tower alone belongs, the rest of the building having been remodelled in the 16th century and modernized after a fire in 1777, stands in the Piazza Umberto Primo near the cathedral, and now contains the telegraph and other government offices.

The Piazza Ferrari, a large irregular space, is the chief focus of traffic and the centre of the Genoese tramway system; it is embellished with a fine equestrian statue of Garibaldi, unveiled in 1893, which stands in front of the Teatro Carlo Felice.

This theory, however, does not seem to fit all the facts and stands in want of confirmation.

In conclusion, it must be emphasized that in Egypt magic stands in no contrast or opposition to religion, at least as long as it was legitimately used.

Surrounding the church (which stands in a highlying portion of the g own known as Chipping Hill) there are earthworks, possibly the remains of a fortification recorded as made by order of Edward the Elder in 913, but perhaps of British origin.

Great efforts were made to remove the deep deposit of earth from the surrounding precinct, and the temple now stands in a wide, open space; but on its east front, where the cut face of the slope is 50 ft.

Early Phrygian art stands in close relationship with the art of Cappadocia.

It stands in sharp contrast with the subsequent appearance of Jesus in Jerusalem at the Passover, when His first act is to drive the traders from the Temple courts.

The fact that it stands in the third division of the Hebrew Canon, the Writings or Hagiographa, along with such late works as Job, Psalms, Chronicles, Daniel, Ecclesiastes and Esther, must be allowed weight; the presumption is that the arrangers of the Canonical books regarded it as being in general later than the Prophetical books.

To the south of it begins the subdivision of the Judaean mountains now known as Jebel el-Khalil, from Hebron (el-Khalil), which stands in an elevated basin some 500 ft.

This alphabet stands in contrast to the old varying types of the Aegean and Asia Minor area and can hardly be of local origin.

Government House stands in grounds on the north side of North Terrace, with several other official buildings in the vicinity; but the majority are in King William Street.

The manor house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a moat, believed to be a Danish work, near the river west of Putney Bridge.

The maharaja's palace, a huge, rambling, ungainly building, stands in the centre of the town, which also contains numerous temples.

Medellin, the foundation of which dates from 1674, stands in the valley of the Porce, a tributary of the Cauca, and is reputed to be one of the healthiest as well as one of the most attractive cities of the republic. It has a university, national college, school of mines and other educational institutions, assaying and refining laboratories, a public library and a mint.

It stands in a low-lying, flat district bordering the Humber.

Everywhere the programme stands in the way.

A king therefore stands in almost as much need of oratory as of warlike skill and prowess.

The temple, which usually stands in the middle of a court, is as a rule a building of very moderate dimensions, consisting either of a single square chamber, surmounted by a pyramidal structure, or of a chamber for the linga and a small vestibule.

The town stands in a valley of an inland range of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at an elevation over 8000 ft.

Tien Ti, Fu Mu, " Heaven and Earth, Father and Mother," are conjoined in common speech, and are the supreme objects of imperial worship. The great altar to Heaven, round in shape like the circuit of the sky, and white as the symbol of the light principle (Yang), stands in the southern suburb of Peking in the direction of light and heat.

The library stands in the beautiful park of Humlegard (hop-garden), in which is also a statue of Linnaeus.

Acosta was not an original thinker, but he stands in the direct line of the rational Deists.

She employs the Swedish language with an extraordinary richness and variety, and stands in the front rank of Swedish novelists.

This tenacity of the Saga stands in the sharpest contrast with the fact that the historical memory of the Persian is extremely defective.

It stands in a valley overhung by a fortress I 000 ft.

Properly therefore it stands in marked antithesis to that fairest growth of old Hellas, the Academy, which saw the Stoa rise and fall - the one the typical school of Greece and Greek intellect, the other of the Hellenized East, and, under the early Roman Empire, of the whole civilized world.

The ethical theory of the Stoics stands in the closest connexion with their physics, psychology and cosmology.

It stands in a fertile but fever-stricken strip of plain between the Galilee hills and the sea-shore.

If a drop of oil stands in lenticular form upon a surface of water, it is because the water-surface is already contaminated with a greasy film.

The main Jewish synagogue, a fine building in oriental style, erected in 1866, stands in a commanding position in the Oranienburger-strasse and is remarkable for its stained glass.

Among the public monuments comes first, in excellence, Rauch's celebrated statue of Frederick the Great, which stands in tinter den Linden opposite the palace of the emperor William I.; and in size the monument to the emperor William I.

It stands in a relationship to primitive Buddhism similar to that in which Roman Catholicism, so long as the temporal power of the pope was still in existence, stood to primitive Christianity.

The old Salisbury mansion, dating back to Colonial days, stands in this square.

The textile industry stands in the front rank and is mostly concentrated in the north-east corner of Bohemia, round Reichenberg, and in the valley of the Lower Elbe.

It stands in a large open space and is approached by an avenue of cypresses and eucalyptus.

S., a seat of the earl of Glasgow, stands in romantic scenery.

A statue of the poet Esaias Tegner stands in the Tegners Plads, and the house in which he lived from 1813 to 1826 is indicated by an inscribed stone slab.

It stands in the south-east corner of the outer court of the mosque erected by Kutb-ud-din immediately after his capture of Delhi in 1193.

The picturesque building by Wren stands in extensive grounds, which include the former Ranelagh Gardens.

Fort William stands in its centre.

Good spruce, which is by far the most valuable timber in the state and is used most largely for the manufacture of paper and pulp, stands in large quantities in the St John, Penobscot, Androscoggin and Kennebec basins.

In her the type of queen characteristic of the Macedonian dynasties stands in the most brilliant light.

But choice, he holds, is not arbitrary; it is determined in every case by " that motive which as it stands in the view of the mind is the strongest," and that motive is strongest which presents in the immediate object of volition the " greatest apparent good," that is, the greatest degree of agreeableness or pleasure.

Merj stands in a rich but ill-cultivated stretch of red soil.

The original reason for this was the reverence monies attaching to the memory of the Confessor, whose shrine and monu- stands in the central chapel behind the high altar.

A small monument erected to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe stands in the Westminster Presbyterian churchyard, where he is buried; there is another monument to his memory in Druid Hill Park.

The city stands in the N.W.

The village stands in the park of Chambord, which is enclosed by a wall 21 m.

It stands in grounds of 300 acres, a mile and a half from the town.

Government House, the residence of the governor of Tasmania, a handsome castellated building, stands in its domain on the banks of the Derwent, to the north of the town.

It stands in the grounds of Steeple, a neighbouring seat, where is also the "Witches' Stone," a prehistoric monument.

This view stands in connexion with the study of comparative religion.

A column in honour of the emperor Marcian still stands in the valley of the Lycus, below the mosque of Sultan Mahommed the Conqueror.

Baal stands in close relation.

Hymettus, and skirts the eastern extremity of the city of Athens; but this, notwithstanding its celebrity, is a mere brook, which stands in pools a great part of the year, and in summer is completely dry.

Reid is careful to observe that this moral faculty is not " innate " except in germ; it stands in need of " education, training, exercise (for which society is indispensable), and habit," in order to the attainment of moral truth.

Some of these are still shown in a chest that stands in a side chapel.

He built all on conscience, as that wherein man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.

Kearney was maintained where Nebraska City now stands in 1847-1848, and in the latter year was re-established on the Platte, some 175 m.

But even in the period of disintegration the minor princes of the Delta were no doubt associated with their eastern neighbours, and although the Assyrian Musri stands in the same relation to the people of Philistia as do the Edomites and allied tribes of the Old Testament, Philistia itself was always intimately associated with Egypt.

The instruction prescribed by the Didache is very largely ethical, and stands in striking contrast to the more elaborate doctrinal teaching which came into vogue in later days.

A bronze statue (dedicated in 1883) in his memory stands in Washington Park.

He's not only seen Howie's flying saucer but he had proof, pictures with little green men, and an owner's manual to their ship, and, by his definition a self-centered jerk with most of his brain somewhere on an Interstate highway or a motor home grill stands in his way from announcing his findings and waiting for a call from the Nobel committee.

Balmoral castle They rented Balmoral castle They rented Balmoral Castle, which stands in the shadow of Lochnagar, from its then owner, the Duke of Fife.

This peasant bourgeoisie stands in the camp of reaction and of counter-revolution.

A revetted component store with corrugated asbestos cladding still stands in a wooded area to the west of the high explosive magazines.

Smith comes from a much later generational cohort and stands in a different political tradition from Kiernan.

So, Jesus' being numbered among criminals surely was a fact; but it stands in stark contrast to his personal comportment.

Ranunculus tripartitus three-lobed water crowfoot S S Lizard and West Penwith, where water stands in winter.

It now stands in Bay XII next to the chaff cutters.

He stands in more fear of a poor saint on his knees than of the greatest eloquence of the pulpit.

Eurydice briefing... more Where England stands in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003.

This beautifully renovated traditional finca stands in large grounds with fantastic views and a pool.

The former French legation stands in a compound just north of Green Park.

This fine hotel & spa leisure Suite stands in one acre of mature grounds A Hotel For ALL Seasons.

The fine example of a Victorian rectory dated 1876 stands in secluded grounds with mature trees which provide a haven for wildlife.

Situated in a beautifully secluded valley, Goonwinnow Farm stands in its own 7-acre grounds.

It has 38 rooms, mostly unused, and stands in wooded grounds nine acres in extent.

The hay wain, a type of horse-drawn cart, stands in the water in the foreground.

His administration as it stands in history is undoubtedly open to the charge that after abolishing the absolutism of the ancient monarchy he substituted for it, not law and liberty, but a military tyranny far more despotic than the most arbitrary administration of Charles I.

Here Cromwell's effigy stands in the midst of the sanctuaries of the law, the church, and the parliament, the three foundations of the state which he subverted, and in sight of Whitehall where he destroyed the monarchy in blood.

Nathaniel Lardner (Arian, 1684-1768) stands in the front rank of the scholarship of his time, and uses his vast knowledge to maintain the genuineness of all books of the New Testament and the perfect accuracy of its history.

It stands in a barren, sandy basin of the great central plateau, drained by the Chambo, a tributary of the Pastaza, on the old road running southward from Quito into Peru, 9039 ft.

In the Shan States there are a few open plateaus, fertile and well populated, and Maymyo in the Mandalay district, the hill-station to which in the hot weather the government of Burma migrates, stands in the Pyin-u-lwin plateauYsome 3500 ft.

In this form it stands in sharp antithesis to the doctrine of evolution, both because the former views the world of particular things and events as essentially unreal and illusory, and because the latter, so far as it goes, looks on matter as eternal, and seeks to explain the general forms of things as we perceive them by help of simpler assumptions.

And finally, just as the mother-goddess of south-western Asia stands in particularly intimate connexion with the youthful god of spring (Tammuz, Adonis, Attis), so we ought perhaps to compare here as a parallel the relation of Sophia with the Soter in certain Gnostic systems (see below) .

The house of Catherine Glover, the "Fair Maid of Perth," still stands in Curfew Row.

The fine example of a Victorian Rectory dated 1876 stands in secluded grounds with mature trees which provide a haven for wildlife.

This stands in marked contrast to oil and fuel filters where there is a relatively large amount of information regarding filtration requirements and capabilities.

Voices in the head activity - Pandora stands in the middle of a space.

If there are fireworks stands in your local area, you can do a quick comparison between what they have available.

Pedestal sinks are popular today because their sleek design and simple elegance stands in stark contrast to contemporary fixtures.

Instead, it stands in silence, having thrilled more than 7 million riders, but possibly unable to offer those thrills any longer.

The child is held on the parent's lap or stands in front of the seated parent.

Tune in to how a person stands in proximity to you, what they do with their hands, their eye contact (steady or fleeting) and what their expression--not their words--is saying to you.

The Sak stands in a sought- after position as America's fourth largest handbag company.

This is a common effect that's used daily during televised weather reports when the meteorologist stands in front of a computerized shot depicting maps and other animated weather sequences.

Taylor Lautner, the actor who portrays werewolf Jacob Black, stands in the foreground as the rest of the pack stands behind him.

Paradoxically, it seems that it is a person's own mind that psychologically stands in the way of recognizing these symptoms, as well as establishing an awareness of your own self.

When he wants a woman, nothing stands in his way to getting her.

The DeltaWing stands in this tradition of retro-futurism and may be coming to a Formula 1 track near you soon.

The spotter stands in an athletic stance, knees slightly bent and shoulder-width apart, legs slightly staggered.

This plan stands in stark contrast to the fad diet that has used the Mayo Clinic name.

Though her sparse version of the song stands in stark contrast to Houston's big and bold pop take, Parton's minimalism only adds to the sadness of the story of love that just has one too many obstacles.

Simmons' edgy stage persona is stripped away to reveal a doting dad, who brings Gatorade to his daughter's soccer games and proudly stands in the front row to cheer on his son's rock band.

When something stands in the way of her obtaining what she desires it makes for good reality TV.

You can tell a 'gothic romance' novel by its cover - a young woman, usually in filmy white, stands in the foreground.

When he joins the defense team for Gaius Baltar, he stands in direct conflict with his father and the President.

This character stands in stark contrast to his role as Harry Kim on Star Trek Voyager.