Stood-for Sentence Examples

She stood for a moment, trying to remember what the smell was.

He pushed himself out of bed and stood for a long moment, gazing out the window at the fields of winter wheat glowing in the moonlight.

I'm not sure how betraying everything your husband stood for would excuse anything you did.

Gabriel stood for a long moment, numb, and then flung a knife into the forest with a roar.

She stood for a long moment before striking out after them on foot.

She stood for a long time, letting the hot

She stood for a long moment in the cramped, silent foyer.

The colossus stood for fifty-six years, till an earthquake prostrated it in 224 B.C. Its enormous fragments continued to excite wonder in the time of Pliny, and were not removed till A.D.

Besides, the Left stood for anticlericalism and for the retention by the State of means of coercing the Church, in opposition to the men of the Right, who, with the exception of Sella, favored Cavours ideal of a free Church in a free State, and the consequent abandonment of state control over ecclesiastical government.

In short, the country was already thoroughly democratic in spirit, while Federalism stood for obsolescent social ideas and was infected with political "Toryism" fatally against the times.

But a nation that for a thousand years had maintained its individuality in the midst of hostile and rival races could not be expected to allow itself without a struggle to be sacrificed to the force of mere numbers, and the less so if it were justified in its claim that it stood for a higher ideal of culture and civilization.

Even when the formal evolution of the science was fairly complete, it was taken for granted that its symbols of quantity invariably stood for numbers, and that its symbols of operation were restricted to their ordinary arithmetical meanings.

During 1919 internal politics centred in a struggle between the Radicals, who still possessed the best party machine and stood for a narrowly Serbian as opposed to a Yugoslav programme, and the newly constituted Democratic party, which absorbed most of the Serbian Opposition parties, the old Serbo-Croat coalition of Zagreb, and the Slovene Liberals.

As contrasted with the first it stood for the necessity of recognizing a universal or ideal element as a constitutive factor in all experience whether cognitive or volitional; as contrasted with the latter for the ultimate unity of subject and object, knowledge and reality, and therefore for the denial of the existence of any thing-in-itself for ever outside the range of experience.

Gradually the dispute pervaded all classes of society, and the religious questions became entangled with political issues; the partisans of the house of Orange espoused the cause of the stricter Calvinism, whereas the bourgeois oligarchy of republican tendencies, led by Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius, stood for Arminianism.

Many bridges so constructed have stood for centuries.

Both bodies of exposition represent the traditional principle at work in the sub-apostolic age, making for the preservation in relative purity, over against merely subjective interpretations - those of the Gnostics in particular - of the historic or original sense of Christ's teaching, just as Ignatius stood for the historicity of the facts of His earthly career in their plain, natural sense.

Sagittarius, figured later as a Centaur, stood for the Babylonian Mars.

In the beginning of 1679 he stood for Guildford, and was warmly supported by William Penn, with whom he had long been intimate, and to whom he is said (as is now thought, erroneously) to have afforded assistance in drawing up the constitution of Pennsylvania.

He now stood for Bramber (Sussex), again with Penn's support, and a double return was made.

On two occasions he stood for Sheffield as a "philosophic radical," but without success.

Sir John Macdonald, then in opposition, had committed his party to a protectionist policy, and Laurier, notwithstanding that the Liberal party stood for a low tariff, avowed himself to be "a moderate protectionist."

In this year he again stood for Midlothian, holding the seat till 1912.

The two young men stood for chairs of physics and natural history respectively, first at Toronto, next at Sydney, but they were in each case unsuccessful.

He stood for Parliament unsuccessfully in Jan.

The old cross, which had stood for several years in the quadrangle of Chambers Institution, was restored and erected in High Street in 1895.

At the Birmingham election in 1885 he stood for the central division of the redistributed constituency; he was opposed by Lord Randolph Churchill, but was elected by a large majority.

The Latin word alga seems to have been the equivalent of the English word " seaweed " and probably stood for any or all of the species of plants which form the C/assifl- " wrack " of a seashore.

He died (7th of July 1307) at Burgh-on-Sands, leaving his incompetent son to ruin himself by his own follies, while ferocious hangings and dragging of men to death at horses' heels roused the Scottish Commons, and the men of Ettrick and Tweeddale, renouncing their new lord, de Valence, came over to the wandering knight who stood for Scotland.

He saw that he stood for the spiritual priesthood of all believers and that medievalism in religion meant that man cannot approach God without a priestly mediator.

Gradually their statement of this position underwent serious modifications, as it became realized that neither Jewish nor Gentile Christianity was a uniform genus, but included several species, and that the apostolic leaders from the first stood for mutual understanding and unity.

In this year he stood for the representation of Konigsberg in the National Assembly at Frankfort-on-Main, and on his election was immediately appointed secretary, and in the course of the same year became successively its vice-president and president.

Everything in short was ripe for the reception of a book that brought together, with masterly ease and vigour, the old and the new Homeric learning, and drew from it the historical proof that Homer was no single poet, writing according to art and rule, but a name which stood for a golden age of the true spontaneous poetry of genius and nature.

In this way Gallicanism, which had once stood for all that was national and progressive, now came to mean subservience to a feeble autocracy already tottering to its fall.

For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with General Boulanger, then minister of war, who was for the despatch of an ultimatum.

If the declarer succeeds in making at least the number of tricks he stood for he wins whatever stakes are played for; if not he loses.

Burchard (1812-1891), on the 29th of October 1884, in Blaine's presence, to characterize what, in his opinion, the Democratic party stood for.

The Polynesians set up sticks to see if the warriors they stood for were to fall in battle; on Hallowe'en in our own country the behaviour of nuts and other objects thrown into the fire is held to prognosticate the lot of the person to whom they have been assigned.

He now stood for his statue to the sculptor, Nicholas Stone, standing before a fire in his study at the Deanery, with his winding-sheet wrapped and tied round him, his eyes shut, and his feet resting on a funeral urn.

Leonardo's triumph with his "Last Supper" encouraged him in the hope of proceeding now to the casting of the Sforza monument or "Great Horse," the model of which had stood for the last three years the admiration of all beholders, in the Corte Vecchio of the Castello.

Not that there was any direct, deliberate borrowing by one nation from the other, but all of them seem to have stood for a long time under identical psychological influences and to have developed on similar lines.

He had hoped to take the babe in his arms for the last time before he went, but now he stood for a few moments irresolute on the threshold looking at them.

He left Bootle and stood for Central Glasgow, the business quarter of his own city, being returned by a huge majority.

But, as a matter of fact, the dam actually stood for about fifteen years.

Few will deny that Athanasius stood for the Christian view of the questions at issue, upon the prin ciples held in common by all disputants.

The Spanish was the race that stood for civilization before North American influence became strong.

But his position in both theology and law was more narrowly traditional than that of ash-Shafi`i; he rejected all reasoning, whether orthodox or heretical in its conclusions, and stood for acceptance on tradition (nagl) only from the Fathers.

Instead of accepting the Constitution upon the condition of amendments, - in which way they might very likely have secured large concessions, - the Anti-Federalists stood for unconditional rejection, and public opinion, which went against them, proved that for all its shortcomings the Constitution was regarded as preferable to the Articles of Confederation.

She stood for states' rights and free trade.

They represented in society nothing more than a force which grew feebler and feebler as other forces grew strong; they never stood for a national magistracy.

The Alexandrians, led by Cyril, stood for the doctrine of the perfect union of two complete natures in one person, and made Novi/cos the shibboleth of orthodoxy.

The Hebrew and probably the Phoenician name for 0 was Ain (Ayin), and in the Semitic alphabet, which does not indicate vowels, the symbol stood for a "voiced glottal stop" and also for a "voiced velar spirant" (Zimmern).

Tertullian, who is sometimes called an anthropomorphist, stood for the Stoical doctrine, that all reality, even the divine, is in a sense material.

Throughout the Cold War Nato said it stood for the defense of the West against the ' Russian aggressor ' .

How could one reconcile the seeming contradiction between everything the cult stood for and the replacement of the divinely anointed king?

Hereditary Champion of England who stood for the new Sovereign's right to rule following coronations.

Off the field, a set of new, single column floodlights replaced those which had stood for over 30 years.

A man who stood for what he believed to be right, loved by the ordinary folk.

The small guardhouse where I stood for four hours now, seemed like a steaming room.

Neachells Hall was a moated homestead which stood for many years on the Wolverhampton side of the road near its junction with Strawberry Lane.

The boy stood for twelve hours in the wind, and sleet, and mud, rejoicing in the conflagration which thus liberated him.

Lion Rampant Store " Scotland's other flag ", the heraldic lion Rampant Store " Scotland's other flag ", the heraldic lion has stood for Scots glory for over 800 years.

The Mill stood for years in a state of near collapse, supported by scaffolding.

They stood for hours in the hot sun waiting for their turn to vote.

They stood for the principle of Independency against the Presbyterian form of church government which Fox had recently established in the " Monthly Meetings " (see below).

In 1841 the movement which ended in the Disruption was rapidly culminating, and Dr Chalmers found himself at the head of the party which stood for the principle that " no minister shall be intruded into any parish contrary to the will of the congregation " (see Free Church Of Scotland).

The man with the star stood for a time quietly thinking over this speech.

I quickly learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality.

They continue to daily replicate the originally designed scents, while discovering new ones that fit in line with the philosophy of what Caron Paris has always stood for - excellence and finery for those who want the best for their skin.

By booking a river cruise, you will see scenic countrysides, medieval towns and city centers, as they have stood for years.

Dark blue stood for love and intense passion.

As America left the age of science fiction and entered into the age of communes and natural living, younger families rejected the pink flamingo and all it stood for.

The network's name originally stood for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network but was officially shortened to ESPN in the mid-1980's.

In fact, she gave herself her own nickname, HBIC, which stood for "head b--ch in charge."

Season 5, Project DNA - DNA stood for "Do Not Assume," but was also reflected in the contestant pool when a set of identical twins, Natalie and Adria, competed as one player, swapping out for one another during the game.

The more informed answer lies in the history of PHP, which originally stood for "Personal Home Page" and was a series of scripts and related tools created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf.

The carats (< and >) let the browser know that HTML code was coming, and the "A" stood for "anchor".

They stood for a moment looking into each other's eyes.