And slowly I stood up and looked at others starting to make their way down a long corridor to the common area where we had all watched the beginnings of football season just a few days before.
When the House of Representatives passed the most mean-spirited provision that said, if you were to give any help whatsoever to someone here illegally, you would commit a crime, I stood up and said that would have criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ himself.
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And when I stood up there and spoke to the Congress, I was speaking off the same intelligence he looked at to make his decision to support he authorization of force.
As the police officer approached my family, I quickly stood up and told him that these were deaf and dumb people that I was chaperoning.
"I would remind Iowans and others that a year ago, I stood up against this war and was the only one to do so of the individuals I have mentioned, " said Dean, whose opposition to the war helped propel him to the top of the pack.
Perhaps I should have stood up and asked these questions at the moment.
The woman readjusted her packages and stood up, and I followed.
"When I found out what these gases were, every hair on my arms stood up and I began to shake, " he says.
Remember, when we -- I stood up here in January and got the very same question: How could we possibly get anything done in this election year when there is so much partisanship and gridlock?
And I simply, in the audience, stood up and asked a question about the use of this technology for human rights organizations.
He's a big guy, he stood up and -- he stood up, I thought, man, that's a big guy, I better call on him. (Laughter.) Say you're big, too -- I agree. (Laughter.) Don't worry, I'm not saying you're not big. (Laughter.) All right, go ahead.
An impromptu group gallop along the edge of a field led to a fall, and when I stood up my thumb didn't.
When my confidence was bruised, I never lost touch with what I stood for and always reminded myself of my values and beliefs that allowed me to get back up when I was knocked down.
"I guess the first kind of feeling we had was when we went for the press conference and the press stood up and applauded for us, which I've never seen, " admits Aronofsky.
And also I think there's a perception that not enough officers have stood up and spoken out against what they see are problems over the past six years.
The woman with the parcels stood up and followed him, so I did the same.
"I announced to the audience my situation and everybody stood up and applauded, " she says.
Thomas Adams, 16, was practicing indoors in the gym of Blessed Sacrament School when he was struck by a pitch, stood up and said, "I can't breathe, " authorities said.
Rather more than that stood up on the day - and I suspect a good part of their motivation was simply to assert their power to debate what they choose, and underline that they are no longer totally in thrall to the government.
I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.
For another minute I sat on the chair in the hallway, then stood up and walked slowly toward her room.
As I stood up after the lunch, a man came over to me and put his business card in my hand.
Smith and I came up, the ones that have stood the test of time.
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When I first proposed this idea in a joint session of Congress, people stood up and applauded on both sides of the aisle.
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In the great teams I played in, one of the defining factors was that various players stood up and performed when the pressure was on.
This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol' boys network.
If you are old enough to remember, when Ronald Reagan gave his first State of the Union, The Gipper, the old actor, stood up and appeared to speak for almost an hour, or so I recall.
But I will urge you to take those questions to the DNC, and once it is stood up to the campaign.
She looked up, and I could see it in everything about her: the way she stood, the darkness in her face, the heaviness.
"I saw her signature on the document registering her acceptance of war aid, and the hair stood up on the back of my neck, " KimRon recalls.
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