Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — The STAND Family (C2)

One of the things that the older members of the panel most respected about her was her willingness to stand up junior colleagues whose contributions had been routinely dismissed by the head of department. (one word)

The independent regulator was set up precisely so that civil servants would have an institutional mechanism for standing up ministers whose decisions could not be defended on the published policy criteria. (one word)

When the deputy ambassador was unexpectedly recalled to the capital halfway through the negotiations, a junior counsellor was hastily asked to stand for her at the closing session. (one word)

The original calculations have been up to several rounds of independent peer review and three separate Parliamentary committees over the years, and no one has yet challenged the central figure of 1.6 billion. (one word)

A retired regional editor from the same paper has agreed to stand in the current chief leader writer during her four months of maternity leave at the start of the new year. (one word)

Following nearly three weeks of intense pressure from her own backbenchers, the committee chair confirmed on Tuesday morning that she would stand from the role with immediate effect. (one word)

It is sometimes useful, when one has been very close to a project for many years, to stand from it for a moment and to ask whether the original objectives still make any obvious sense. (one word)

Whatever I may think privately about her recent statements on housing policy, she is a very old friend, and I have no intention whatever of failing to stand her during the inquiry. (one word)

All ground crew were instructed at 0530 to stand by a possible early-morning launch window, depending on whether the upper-atmosphere winds eased before the cut-off at 0700. (one word)

Of all the manuscripts shortlisted for this year's prize, one in particular stood from the others on stylistic grounds, even before the question of subject matter was discussed. (one word)

At a moment when the rest of the board was clearly turning against the chief executive, it was the new finance director, of all people, who unexpectedly spoke for her at the closed-session meeting. (one word)

At considerable personal cost, two of her former cabinet colleagues had been willing throughout the autumn to speak against what they saw as the politicisation of senior civil-service appointments. (one word)

For all the criticism it attracted from her academic peers at the time of publication, the monograph has, on the whole, stood up the test of time really rather better than its better-reviewed competitors. (one word)

In a strikingly direct closing statement, the new headmistress warned the assembled sixth form that the school under her leadership would simply not stand the kind of casual cruelty that had become almost normalised in some year groups. (one word)

The veteran broadcaster has now stood for the regular host of the flagship Sunday-morning programme on no fewer than four separate occasions over the last two years. (one word)