Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

But the pseudo-capitalism which dictates our whole economy as well as our politics and social life, will not stand close scrutiny.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

This is the root issue for which the United States should stand.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo's solitary bachelor room with his sketches, asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

It is discouraging for students to realize that the societies do not truly uphold the standards for which they are supposed to stand.

their principles of composition stand very close to those which appear in the Homeric epics and the hexameter line.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

As things now stand, there is a grievous disparity between the unity in Christ which we profess in ecumenical meetings and the complacent separateness of most congregations on any Main Street in the nation.

These two, Heritage and Drexel, chose too not to produce the exactly matching design for every piece, but a collection of correlated designs, each of which could stand alone.

All this works severely against the kind of cross-cultural communication for which Christian missions stand.

Not to repel injury and uphold and improve pax-ordo means not simply to accept the misshapen order and injustice that challenges it at the moment, but also to start down the steep slope along which justice can find no place whereon to stand.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

Other numerically important groups include the closely interrelated Chokwe and Lunda, the Ganguela and Nhaneca-Humbe, in both cases classification terms which stand for a variety of small groups, the Ovambo, the Herero, the Xindonga and scattered residual groups of Khoisan.

People with cerebellar ataxia may initially present with poor balance, which could be demonstrated as an inability to stand on one leg or perform tandem gait.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

In such cases a common convention is to use the " elsewhere condition " to decide which allophone will stand for the phoneme.

Sessions include chair work and table work, often in front of a mirror, during which the instructor and the student will stand, sit and lie down, moving efficiently while maintaining a correct positioning of the head, neck and spine.

In 1927 the second brick members ’ stand was replaced at a cost of £ 60, 000.

This process is due to happen again in 2009 as a response to cost increases in GT1 and GT2 racing: for the 2009 season, GT1 and GT2 as they currently stand will be abolished.

The stand remained open to the elements until a roof was added in 1986 after fans raised money to contribute to the cost.

Petrie announced at the 2009 annual general meeting that the club would enter negotiations with contractors to establish the cost of rebuilding the stand.

The Molineux Street stand, built in 1932, was demolished, along with 71 terraced houses on Molineux Street, in 1979, and a new stand built at a cost of £ 1½ million ready for the 1979 – 80 season.

One school of thought holds that Braddock's reliance on time-honoured European methods, where men stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the open and fire mass volleys in unison, was not appropriate for frontier fighting and cost Braddock the battle.

There was also talk of an English seat, but he agreed to stand ( for Westminster ) for North Down, provided it was only for one parliament, that he was unopposed and that it only cost him £ 100 -£ 200.

Completed in 1995 at a cost of £ 35 million, the new stand is 180 metres long, 35 metres high, has a capacity for 25, 000 people and contains 46 hospitality suites.

The principal issues which stand in the way of their widespread adoption are cost and reliability.

The costs involved in this economic activity are the costs of the lemons and the sugar and the water that are ingredients to the lemonade, the opportunity cost of the labour to combine them into lemonade, as well as any transaction costs, such as walking to the stand.

The cost of admission was 6d but nobody wanted to pay and spectators were content to stand on the road to view the game.

This stand, which cost £ 35, 000 and provided 4, 800 seats, was smaller and less ornate than the Main Stand at Ibrox.

" The final cost of the stand and associated 1922 – 24 ground developments was calculated at £ 89, 000, a sum that enraged the club's directors who ordered an investigation into cost and in 1925 forced the resignation of Rinder.

The stand was fully operational by January 1994 at a cost of £ 5 million with 4, 686 seats, which brought Villa Park up to a capacity of 46, 005.

The stand completed at a cost of £ 50, 000, being delayed because an old man would not move from his to be demolished home.

The new stand opened 1971, at a cost of £ 1 million.

Once the work was completed, a second tier was added to the main stand at the cost of £ 6. 5 million.

On opening day, ticket prices ranged from $ 1. 25 for box seats and $ 1 for reserved grand stand sections ; temporary bleachers were set up for the occasion and cost $ 0. 50.

Designed by Atherden Fuller, with Hilstone Laurie as project and construction managers and Campbell Reith Hill as structural engineers, the new three-tiered stand cost a total of £ 18. 65 million to build and had a capacity of about 25, 500, raising the capacity of the entire ground to more than 55, 000.

The Halfords Lane stand was rebuilt in two separate phases between 1979 and 1982, at a cost of around £ 2. 5 million.

We stand by the principle that absent parents should make a fair contribution to the cost of the upkeep of their children, and we are committed to tackling the backlog of Child Support Agency claims as efficiently and fairly as possible.

After City's first season in the Football League, the club built a 5, 000-seater covered stand on the west side at a cost of £ 1, 050.