make a stand against
Example Sentences
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“We have to make a stand against exploitative publishers and speak up about this to stop things like this from happening again in the future,” Mojiken said.
From The Verge • Aug. 24, 2022
Their shared hope is that Kuwait is ready to make a stand against the climate crisis.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
Nicht Mit Uns – or Not With Us – has been organised by Muslim activists in Cologne to make a stand against acts of terror and violence carried out in the name of Islam.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2017
There are some words and conversations that we as a community don’t need to tolerate, that we can make a stand against and say “that has no place here.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2016
On the 7th the Allied advance was continued, and on the 8th the Germans strove hard to make a stand against the British on the high ground to the north of the Grand Morin.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
