He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

`` You mean anyone who stood up for his rights '', Curt said.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

He saw no life, but still stood there for a time peering at the unlovely hills, his gaze continually returning to Papa-san.

And those without beards would have stood out as not dressed for the occasion.

As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

The pace could now be accelerated, for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood on firm ground.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

I closed the last bag and stood all three at the door for the bellboy to pick up, then went to the bathroom for a drink of water.

The seventeen men stood and stared at him for a moment longer.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

For moments he stood in water, shivering and gasping for breath.

He stood, panting, for a moment.

He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

Suharto stood for re-election by parliament for the seventh time in March 1998, justifying it on the grounds of the necessity of his leadership during the crisis.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

" Foot joined the Labour Party and first stood for parliament at the age of 22 in the 1935 general election, when he contested Monmouth.

Kekkonen successfully stood for parliament a second time in 1936 whereupon he became Justice Minister, serving from 1936 to 1937.

At the 1992 general election, he stood in the constituency of Chingford ( where the Conservative MP, Norman Tebbit, was retiring ), and was elected to parliament.

Healy was returned unopposed to parliament, aided by the fact that Redmond stood aside. and surviving an agrarian court case which alleged that he had been guilty of intimidation.

Instead of ordering to disperse the protesters, then Col. Gutiérrez and the army stood aside and let them take over the national parliament.

Jørgen Kosmo, the previous President of the Storting, had not stood for parliamentary re-election, and Jagland was elected to this position by the members of parliament on 10 October 2005.

He was present at Edgehill, where his regiment of Puritans recruited in London was one of the few which stood firm and saved the day for the parliament.

Maxton stood for parliament in the 1918 general election as a Labour Party candidate but was defeated in this first effort.

His last attempt to enter parliament came at the 1959 General Election, when he stood for the Liberal Party at Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, again finishing second.

In 1903 and in 1906 he stood for parliament for the Liberal Party, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.

He stood down from the European Parliament in 1994 and left the UK parliament at the 2005 general election.

Relieved of his heavy work on the Empire, which was continued in other hands, Parkes stood for parliament and was elected for East Sydney on 10 June 1859.

In 1873 Kuyper stood as candidate in the general election for parliament for the constituency of Gouda, but he was defeated by the incumbent member of parliament, the conservative Jonkheer Willem Maurits de Brauw.

Having joined the National Party in 1975, Shipley successfully stood for the Ashburton electorate in the 1987 election, entering parliament at age 35, at the time one of parliament's youngest members.

Holding two seats in the Swiss National Council ( lower or first chamber of the Swiss parliament ), going into the 2007 elections, the party stood candidates in the cantons of Zürich, Vaud, Geneva and the Ticino on their own, and in Neuchâtel the candidate was on a joint list with Solidarity.

He stood down from parliament at the 2005 general election.

He stood in the December 1995 elections along with Zhvania, and both men won seats in parliament, standing for the Union of Citizens of Georgia, Shevardnadze's party.

Roscoe was elected member of parliament for Liverpool in 1806, but the House of Commons was not for him, and at the dissolution in the following year he stood down.

He was a multi-faceted man who, in pursuit of his vision, gave up a steady job in the civil engineering service ; stood for election and became a member of the Cortes ( parliament ); drafted useful ground-breaking legislation ; drew up an incredibly detailed topographical survey map of Barcelona's surrounding area ; and wrote a theoretical treatise to support each of his major planning projects.

For cool and sustained declamation he stood unrivalled in parliament, and his readiness in debate was universally acknowledged.