(a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
() of Stay
Example Sentences:
(1) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .
(2) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
(3) Recent politically sensitive cases have been staid and straightforward affairs – last month, former railways minister Liu Zhijun was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery after just three and a half hours in the dock.
(4) That first book, The Path to Power , was greeted as a revelation not only for its insights into the true nature of Johnson but for its transformation of the staid form of political biography.
(5) According to the NetEase report, the rules do not apply to CCTV1, although that may be because its output is already more staid than that of its rivals.
(6) Steve Crawshaw, who turned Bradford and Bingley from a staid building society into a specialist in self-certified mortgages and left the company weeks before it had to be nationalised, has apparently retired to the Yorkshire countryside: his only publicly-recorded activity these days is as the chair of the advisory board of the School of Management at Bradford University, who forwarded him my list of questions, but I heard nothing back.
(7) I'd seen younger, more erratic and more hyped bands (Young Bloods, Fat White Family) earlier in the day and expected something more staid and predictable.
(8) Ryley said: "Whatever you think of Fox News, there is no denying that it has shaken up the sometimes staid world of US TV news by using commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity alongside its core news output."
(9) Why had investment bankers been allowed to over-run a supposedly staid Scottish bank?
(10) Even the usually staid weekly, Die Zeit, headlines its main Greek crisis story with the headline: "Are the Greeks Potty?"
(11) The prostaglandin-E2-concentrations in the treated pregnant animals decreased by half during the first hour of the experiment, whereas they staid fairly constant in the untreated group of animals.
(12) As well as being the first black minister, Gething is seen as part of a new generation of younger politicians who will regenerate the Welsh assembly, which is sometimes criticised for being staid and lacking dynamism.
(13) She points to a pirate outfit in the exhibition worn by Adam Ant (another snake-hips) and links it deftly to the piecrust collar worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she first came to public notice as a sweet and rather staid nursery teacher in 1980.
(14) A Shanghai newspaper learned of her groundbreaking research and "called for an end to the madness" in an editorial comment subsequently republished by the People's Daily – in what would have been an astonishing move for the staid official Communist party newspaper.
(15) These tools are also being used to replace staid development paradigms, by organising and developing African-driven institutions.
(16) But that's not the only problem at the company: sudden reorganizations and changing strategies favored hot copycat products and left its staid legacy businesses orphaned.That, in turn, left Microsoft marooned between a fading past and an uncertain future.
(17) As if to underline the idea that politics in Wales defies the staid norms of Westminster, both front-runners in the Plaid leadership contest are women.
(18) The move was designed to transform its image from staid telecoms company into a 21st-century multimedia business.
(19) Bannon was casual with open-collared shirt, Priebus more staid in suit and tie.
(20) Staid courtyards winced to the sounds of Beggars Banquet, The White Album, Big Pink and Dr John The Night Tripper drifting through leaded windows.
Stand
Definition:
(v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
(n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
(n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
(n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
(n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
(n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
(n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
(n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
(n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
(n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
(n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
(n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
(n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
(n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
(n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
(n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
(n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
(n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
(n.) To appear in court.
(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
(v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
(v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
(v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
(v. i.) The act of standing.
(v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
(v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
(v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
(v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
(v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
(v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
(v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
(v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.
(v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
(v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
(v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(3) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(4) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(7) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(8) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(11) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(12) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(13) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(14) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(15) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
(16) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(17) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
(18) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(19) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
(20) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.