stand up against
Verb
Meaning
stand up against (third-person singular simple present stands up against, present participle standing up against, simple past and past participle stood up against)
To defy or challenge someone
Synonyms
Examples
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Hence, men that are born in the north are rendered over-timid and weak by fever, but their wealth of blood enables them to stand up against the sword without timidity.
I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.