She often stood for hours with her hands on a piano while it was played.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The Wall stood for nearly three decades, dividing the city and Germany into East and West.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"I am here to celebrate her because that lady stood for me so I could stand here today, I am wearing my pearls the way she used to tie her pearls.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

"Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Well,all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

But natural selection has stood the test of time as a basis for the science of biology.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

He stood two hundred thirty-one centimeters -- tall even for a Dinka, some of Africa's tallest people.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The house stood unoccupied for a while, then government agencies used it for offices.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Yet,for some minutes longer I stood still. But the beating grew louder,louder!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Lady Liberty stood holding her torch high for freedom.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Everett stood silent for a moment.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

For years,the Central Intelligence Agency stood at the forefront of U.S.efforts to extract information from terror suspects in the post-9/11 era.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

President Ahmedinejad, flanked by speaker Larijani, stood alongside his new ministers and read off a list of goals for his new cabinet.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

She points to the poem, 'It was not death, for I stood up', as an example.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

For the first time, members of Mr.Obama's own political party stood against him.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down- It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Weeping relatives stood outside an Addis Ababa courthouse Monday hoping for a glimpse of loved ones arrested April 24 in what officials originally called a roundup of suspected coup plotters.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

To represent that chain of events, a long line of oversized, brightly painted dominoes has been set up running for one-and-a-half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The dominoes have been set up to run for one and a half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood, and late Monday they will be toppled much like the Wall was two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09