10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STAND ONE'S GROUND»
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
stand in awe of stand one's ground the coffin. □ The Albanian people stand firm
guard over the independence and sovereignty of their country. stand in awe of
kam respekt te madh per □ The students stood in awe of their professor because
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel ...
Stay, be firm, be resolute, keep one's position, maintain one's ground, stand one's
ground. 7. Rank, have rank, hold a place. 8. Be (emphatically). 9. Be valid, have
force, have validity. 10. Be a candidate. 11. (Naut.) Steer, hold a course. Stand ...
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Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism
the generalization of the Reductio Argument unharmed: true, in the movie-or-
tennis example, IMPARTIALITY holds, and it's wrong to stand one's ground. But
in the moral case, it is sometimes permissible to stand one's ground, and so the ...
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Flügel's Complete Dictionary of the German and English ...
... 1. to stand one's ground, make head against ; 2. to answer, defenc one's self;
fetnen ?0lann — , to be as good as any man ; to stand one's ground ; ©d)ilblOad)
C — , to be on guard, stand sentinel; babei — , to stand by ; — bleiben/ to stop, ...
Felix Flügel, C. A. Feiling, A. Heimann, 1843
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Flugel's Complete Dictionary of the German and English Languages
ouf. bem. spuntte. —. ,. or. tm. SJegnffe. —. $u,. to. be. on the point of .. ; einem —
- 1. to stand one's ground, make head against ; 2. to answer, defend one's self;
fdnen 3Rann — , to be as good as any man ; to stand one's ground ...
C. A. Feiling, A. Heimann, 1843
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Vollständiges englisch-deutsches und deutsch-englisches ...
▽ery □well; onf ban <piinfic or iin 2?rgritfc — ;u . . ., to be on the point of . . . ;
Siitcm — , a) (Mcbe — , cntgcgcnftcncii) to stand one's ground, to make head
against; It) (fid; bcr- tl)cibigcii) to answer, defend one's self ; fciacn 3Kiiitn — , to
be as ...
Johann Gottfried Flügel, Napoleon N W. Meissner, 1856
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An English and Welsh Dictionary, Wherein, Not Only the ...
To stand one's ground. See to keep [maintain, or stand one's] Ground, under G.
To stand hard in buying, Bargenna'n galed, bod vn fargennwr called (Jem.
fargenwraig galed, neu wydn. To stand or persist, in. See under P. To stand in or
cost.
John Walters, Hannah Walters, 1828
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Mid-1500s] stand one's ground Also, hold one's ground; stand fast. Be firm or
unyielding, as in You've got to respect him for standing his ground when all the
others disagree, or I'm going to hold my ground on this issue, or No matter how
he ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
... give a warm reception to [ironical]; hold —, keep- at —bay, — arm's length.
stand —, aet- on the defensive; show fight; maintain —, stand- one's ground;
stand by; hold one's own; bear —, standthe brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in
the gap.
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
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Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite
Yet, even in such dire cases, the old common law used down to the time of Coke
and Blackstone did not allow one, without penalty, to stand one's ground and
fight and to kill one's assailant in self- defense. Instead, the common law held that
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William M. Breakenridge, Richard Maxwell Brown, 1992
