Sentences with phrase «stand by while»

Stand by while blight develops as a result of foreclosures?

We will not, must not, stand by while cynical politicians — in Congress, the White House and state capitals — play politics with women's health, lives and rights.

Plus we had to struggle with our failing interactional abilities, which seemed to be waving gamely like those giant, willowy, white - plastic columns at the used car lots, pumped up by air and wagging at customers — blathering social instincts not to stare, not to stand by while someone is consumed with anxiety; instincts to smile or not to smile; all this quickly reaching a crux, our faces distended by the wondrous strain.

With New York's public defense system in the national spotlight, the state has entered this agreement and shown it will no longer stand by while innocent people lose their families, homes and jobs because they're too poor to hire private lawyers.

Attorney Mike Moity of New Iberia, Louisiana couldn't stand by while visitors from Dallas, arrested on ridiculous misdemeanors, sat in jail awaiting trial because they couldn't pay bail.

They stand by while the Environmental Protection Agency has become the Environmental Pollution Agency.

I don't want to harm Tania, I don't want to get myself in harm's way, and I don't want to stand by while my friend is harmed.

We should not simply stand by while insurers unreasonably discriminate against pets.

However, that doesn't mean I'll stand by while one of their newly purchased twits pretends to have credentials as a business journalist and tries to con my readers into believing that the Penguin and Author Solutions so - many - imprints - you - can't - keep - track - of - which - ones - we - own business model «brings more choice to the market.»

They shouldn't stand by while non-dealers fix them.

School districts can no longer afford to stand by while enrollment shifts in the face of expanding school choices.

«I'm not going to stand by while someone who doesn't look like me accuses me of carrying out some form of Jim Crow,» Wilson said.

I'm not going to stand by while someone who doesn't look like me accuses me of carrying out some form of Jim Crow... I teach my own kids that no one can take your dignity and only you can control your temper.

Will firemen stand by while buildings burn down?

But it is extraordinarily difficult to understand how anyone — particularly someone in an audience at an august, Ivy League university — can think it's fair to label her a «white supremacist»... or stand by while others do so.

Because, a serious athlete doesn't just stand by while the other guys exceed them.

We will not stand by while people with their own political agendas, controlled by downstate power brokers, maneuver to prevent the downsizing of the Erie County Legislature,» said Legislator Ray Walter, R - Clarence.

Failure to do so would confirm the Tories are not only happy to stand by while insecurity booms, but are also happy to punish low and middle paid workers for it.

«This is John Faso's M.O — stand by while his fellow Republicans raise income and property taxes on his constituents, and then try to undermined efforts to protect New Yorkers from these vicious hikes,» he said.

«Under my leadership, Labour will no longer stand by while the Prime Minister weakens our country and allows the world to become less secure.

Dr Roach, who is an Executive Board member of Education International, said: «Our delegation is here to show the authorities in Bahrain that the world is watching and that we will not stand by while repression, torture and abuse of citizens is continuing.

Time to take to the streets and change this nation if the responsible leaders of our nation just stand by while a traitor tries to turn us into an oligarchy!

«I am not going to stand by while people's aspirations to get on the housing ladder are being trashed,» he explained.

Silence is complicity, and as healthcare workers we can not afford to stand by while our patients are hurting.»

«I will not stand by while the things we most value are under attack.

«We can not simply stand by while hundreds of people drown in our continent's seas.

Since my son was born, I absolutely can not stand by while hearing my baby, or other babies, cry.

This method is very successful, but some parents, unable to stand by while the baby cries, will simply try one of the other methods and wait a little longer for peaceful nights.

I remember my dad (both of whose children were born at home!!!!) telling me to «Just go get a doctor like your sister did» and even offering to pay for an ambulance to stand by while I labored and birthed at home.

We should not be hypocrites and stand by while this childish and cowardly behaviour goes on and just pretend it is OK.

(And the burnt ones actually tasted good the next day, to the delight of my cookie - slighted family who had to stand by while I boxed these up and shipped them off.)

If we claim to be saved, but our hearts are still so unchanged and hard that we stand by while people are hungry, naked, sick, in gaol, or homeless, then it probably isn't too far off the mark to ask what Jesus would have to say about us.

If we choose the first, we need only stand by while we lose our humanity.

But they come out of ownership and a realization that this must never happen again and if it does the Church, especially for the folks I'm familiar with, must never again stand by while injustice rears its ugly face.

Oh, wait, I can do that from here... please stand by while I transfer your call...

Regardless of someone siging a wavier acknowledging a spiritual practice is dangerous doesn't mean that he should stand by while someone becomes deathly ill by that practice.

We can't call ourselves Catholic, and then simply stand by while immigrants get mistreated, or the poor get robbed, or unborn children get killed.

If you stand by while your brother suffers, Jesus will know.

Hopefully, we will stand by while unarmed sheep like you are slaughtered by the thousands by criminals.

To refuse to take a gun is to stand by while injustice does its work and the poor die of hunger.

In other places, we have seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities tears communities apart.»

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

Although described as the next big thing in technology, the public has mostly stood by while manufacturers furiously try to refine their devices to make them more appealing.

Loving a ho mo se xual is not standing by while it commits a crime either.

He does allow certain things to happen but stands by us while we weather the storms of life.

Is your church more like Ahab (who stood by while Jezebel murdered Naboth) or Elijah?

When Iran and Iraq cut a deal, the U.S. withdraws support, denies the Kurds refuge in Iran, and stands by while the Iraqi government kills many Kurdish people.

There is not a family in Rome that has not stood by while a loved one opened his veins and bled to death in a tub of warm water.

Now the modern world is witness to a church that has stood by while its own priests have made a mockery of the words of Jesus be harming young, children.