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A stands for Antwerp, Austerlitz, Agata, Aychenwald, and scores of other proper names round which the novel moves.
From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed.
This can be a major source of error if you're not keeping close track of what every letter stands for.
It has been said that in Schubert's music the melody stands for life and the harmony for death.
Recent polls indicate those vegetarians might put him out to pasture if he stands for re-election next year.
Within about five minutes however I found out that LSD also stands for pounds, shillings and pence.
She looked very cheerful and lively, as her name stands for Beauty I trusted in her instantly.
The commander stands for the general's qualities of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness.
The equal sign used here stands for a three-lined equal sign in the book, but my computer cannot produce such a siglum.
It stands for myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is such a big name that I get exhausted even saying it.
The sea stands for the unconscious mind and deeper levels of being, the book unveils the hidden nature of men and women.
They not only control who stands for them but when they are here, they have to be totally on-message.
Of course they must be fit and able to run and skip a tackle but all that stands for nothing if they don't know what to do with ball.
Ours is the only party that stands for the fundamental principle that all workers must be able to live and work in whichever country they choose.
Like the eponymous hero in The Picture of Dorian Gray, he stands for a new motive for art.
Surely he isn't arguing that you have to agree with everything a politician stands for in order to support that politician.
The result is an unhappy divorce between student and school which is a grotesque travesty of all that the IBO stands for.
Maybe it stands for something, and my mind is just trying to purge itself of unnecessary thoughts.
It is abidingly important to show that this country stands for freedom for every faith.
First, characters can represent types of reactions to prophecy and what it stands for.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The pali, the precipice, stands for any difficulty or obstacle of magnitude.
It has been suggested that it stands for Maia, a name of the Tuscan goddess.
The action in each case is denoted by the meaning of the word which stands for it.
The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it.
By its measurement every man stands for what he is and for what he does, not for what he was and what he did.
They make excellent laboratory stands for elementary courses in microscopy.
But that only helps to confuse us as to what Unitarianism really stands for.
The Unknown Soldier stands for us as symbol of this blind and far-reaching fury of modern conflict.
League is a vague term, and, like x in an algebraic equation, stands for an unknown quantity.
This and most of the unbroken English of this story stands for Acadian French.
Ensilor stands for the person using the silo to ensile fodder for silage by the process of ensilage.
Et al. stands for the Latin et alii, et aliae, or et alia, meaning and others.
What each nation stands for, its ethos, its personality, must be made clear.
In this it differs from Obversion, Conversion, and contraposition, each of which stands for one process.
It stands for the quality and service you have the right to expect from Paul Bunyan.
A black dot suspended from the fraternity line stands for a miscarriage or a stillbirth.
What are the elements which produce the atmosphere of crudity that stands for Millerstown?
The furtiveness with which she handles the painting embarrasses everything her father stands for.
The name of Artigas stands for that of the national hero of Uruguay.
Camus, the deity of the river Cam, stands for the University of Cambridge.
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