They can either stand up for oil companies or they can stand up for the American people.
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People who might not have the courage to stand up or the opportunity to stand up and speak about things that are very delicate and that people do not want to hear.
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That means that any public servant who has the courage to stand up to the special interests and stand up for the American people can find himself or herself under assault come election time.
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"I want to stand up for our security services because they cannot stand up for themselves, " Mr Brown added.
How can I carry out my mandate to empower women to stand up to abusive husbands, if I dare not stand up to a system that abuses the individual with impunity?
Jason Yip, a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks in Sydney, Australia, plays music such as Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up, " to round up colleagues.
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Because if we had a room full of 10- to 20-year-olds and we said, "Everybody stand up that has a watch on, " I'm not sure anybody would stand up.
You get your grass-roots movement fired up to stand up and do something.
And you all always thank us, but we stand here, stand up straight, breathing in and out every day because of your support.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to Rupert Murdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the media tycoon.
These laws demonstrate that the City of New York is willing to stand behind immigrant families and stand up for humane immigration policy that keeps families together locally, while we fight for just and humane reform nationally.
Mr Vogler added that the challenge to renewables companies would be to come up with technology able to stand up to the most extreme conditions.
Rebecca Maughan, the real history teacher, offered an encouraging first-night review, saying that the stand-up stand-in teacher had kept the class engaged and interested.
No one will stand with a nation that will not stand up for itself.
"You know, I see not everyone speak up, so I need to stand up for myself 'cause I see myself in there, I see trouble in there, " said Tong, who was a sophomore at the time of the incident.
One campaign in this initiative is The Healing Generations Project, where we are challenging Elders to SPEAK UP about the sacred truths of manhood, for Fathers to STAND UP and be the best father they can be so the Youth can SHOW UP and feel safe, loved, protected, inspired to fulfill their purpose in life.
"I am sure that these things come up in life and you have to stand up and take them, " he added.
Irish comedian Aisling Bea has won the So You Think You're Funny? competition for up-and-coming stand-up comedians.
Someone could set me up with a kayak or stand-up paddleboard whenever the urge came over me.
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He spent the next couple of months going to live comedy gigs and studying comedians like Bill Hicks on YouTube before signing up to do a live stand-up performance himself at a local comedy club.
If we can put him under pressure and keep him quiet it's up to the other members of the team to stand up and that is when they are at their most vulnerable.
One thing we'd like to see in future units is for the bottom of the unit to be angled and for it to be able to stand on its own, the Zen can't stand up without falling over usually.
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The Strategic Partnership Agreement that President Karzai and I signed in Kabul ensures that as Afghans stand up they will not stand alone.
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So for the Hall of Fame, the No. 1 highlight of anyone's career and what we all strive to become, for Hall of Fame voters to stand up and make a stand, I think that is a positive thing.
Apparently some of the best leadership ideas can be wrung from stand-up comedians--that is if you believe Roger Edward Jones, a management coach who has dabbled in stand-up and subsequently become inspired to add to the ever-growing mountain of books on management self-help.
We also set up a stand where people could make up a graphic with their photo and a 'reporting from' caption from any place in the world.
Ah yes, well, he's riding high now, he may seem to be standing up for Wales in just the spot where we alone used to stand up for Wales, squeezing us out, crowding us out ... but what happens if too little of what Carwyn Jones called for is actually included in Labour's manifesto ahead of the general election in 2015?
Mr McKinnon's supporters say he ought to stand trial in Britain (if at all) because of his health, which would not stand up to an American trial and possible imprisonment.
So man up and woman up and stand before the voters in debates and town halls and say, 'Yea, we passed the stimulus bill because we needed to do something to get this economy going.
But when people foul up in a spectacular fashion, especially when it involves a personal matter, Americans will give them a break and a second chance -- as long as they stand up like a man or a woman, admit they screwed up, say they're sorry and look like they damn well mean it.
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