How to Use take a stand in a Sentence

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• But the case is likely to increase pressure on the high court, as well as state courts, to take a stand.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• This time, the poster decided to take a stand on his wife’s behalf.
  — Ashley Vega, People.com, 24 June 2025
• Fat Joe is the latest to take a stand against the lack of price transparency in healthcare.
  — Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• That set the stage for the convention, at which moderates planned to take a stand.
  — Marsha E. Barrett / Made By History, TIME, 15 July 2024
• In the Thirties, leftists had pushed the guild to take a stand on such issues as the Spanish Civil War.
  — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
• Sweeney, who wore a Marine veteran's hat, beseeched the group to take a stand.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• The beleaguered Boston City Council is not afraid to take a stand.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 16 May 2025
• The lengthy mobilizations with no clear end in sight have led a growing group of women to take a stand.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
• To take a stand at this World Cup has become an act of subversiveness.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
• For companies that take a stand, the benefits are clear.
  — Leeatt Rothschild, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• That didn't sit right with us since, from the beginning, it's always been our value to take a stand against the tampon tax.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2023
• Or whether employees from red states even want their employers to take a stand.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• The rest of you can have him, because Black people need someone who is going to take a stand when the rest of us are under attack.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025
• Why wouldn’t the United States take a stand for one of the movement’s representatives?
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
• He was chastised by members of Congress for refusing to take a stand on the matter.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 14 May 2025
• These artists transform garbage into garb to take a stand 4 eco-friendly ways to keep pests out of your yard Forests as 'carbon offsets'?
  — Environment, 10 May 2022
• Mahra is hardly the first female relative of Sheikh Mohammed to take a stand that counters the emirate’s norms.
  — Anika Arora Seth, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• Now, teachers at Cincinnati Public Schools are calling on their leaders to take a stand.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• In 2009, William & Mary’s board did acknowledge that the college had failed to take a stand against segregation during the Jim Crow era.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• Instead, governments around the world should take a stand on this matter of principle.
  — Lobsang Sangay, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
• Skinner then implored Biles — widely considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time — to take a stand against the bullies.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
• The marathon aims to raise awareness about mental illness and addiction and take a stand against mental health stigmas.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Morning Consult question is about whether companies should take a stand, not about the programs themselves.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025
• To witness Maine's first female governor take a stand against the girls and women of her state should leave people across the entire country aghast.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
• One company promising to take a stand against these fraudsters is Bureau.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• Michael Feinstein is the latest theater star to take a stand against the Trump administration’s takeover of the Kennedy Center.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 May 2025
• In the early years of the Trump presidency, Peterson would call her lawmakers from the car to object to Trump’s policies and plead with them to take a stand.
  — Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Young has been known to take a stand using access to his music.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
• Whalen recalled a particular moment where Drew stepped in to take a stand.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
• Stocktonians are coming together to take a stand against the violence in their city.
  — Tori Apodaca, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026