stand for

To be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles.

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

And with stand-ups, I remember liking George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Those opposing same-sex marriage are on their heels, and increasingly unwilling or unable to make a stand against it.

Spencer, 27,  is variously described as a writer and a stand-up comic.

She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

But the liberal soul deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand.

All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.

It is only necessary to have a zinc, or a galvanized tray on which to stand the glass in an inverted position.

Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both.