Examples of stand-down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb After securing his position, Gerace worked to stand down the city’s mass care homeless shelter at the Sullivan Arena, which the city closed at the end of June, along with most of its other pandemic-era homelessness responses. — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022 Prosecutors disagreed, arguing that the letters demonstrated that Bannon had willfully ignored Congress' demands after unsuccessfully trying to get the committee to stand down. — Robert Legare, CBS News, 19 July 2022 Similar conditions existed for weeks at a steel mill in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol before a civilian evacuation was arranged and the defending troops were ordered by Ukrainian military commanders to stand down. — John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022 Similar conditions existed for weeks at the Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol before a civilian evacuation was arranged and the defending troops were ordered by Ukrainian military commanders to stand down. — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 12 June 2022 Arredondo denied previous reports from The New York Times that stated the group of officers that ultimately killed Ramos had been ordered to stand down before making their move against the shooter. — Dan Carson, Chron, 10 June 2022 Finally, seeing the collision that was coming, Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, tried to enlist help from Mr. Kushner, calling him over the holidays to ask him to get his father-in-law to stand down. — New York Times, 8 June 2022 The MiG mistake may let Mr. Putin believe his threats will make NATO stand down. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022 The final straw that had prompted 60 MPs to quit their jobs and call on Johnson to stand down was his appalling reaction the week before to the resignation of MP Chris Pincher, and the catalog of failures that had preceded it. — Holly Thomas, CNN, 16 July 2022 See More

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