She said she felt a "personal duty" to make a stand over the licence fee along with many others.
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- In the village of Angolo, in Sudan's South Kordofan state, villagers stand over a deadly and illegal weapon.
The best part: a cafe close to the checkout counters where chefs stand over giant saut pans, preparing meals ready to be taken home.
It is equally evident in Turkey's uncompromising stand over Cyprus.
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Belatedly, Mr Blair seems to acknowledge that he should be seen to make a principled stand over the treatment of these men, but he sounds too much like a timid supplicant.
When we stand over our grills, adjusting the fire to fit the food, we stand on the shoulders of giants, even if some of them didn't share their protruding browridges with modern humans.
This is the tool that corporations everywhere have been waiting for: a way to stand over the shoulder of every employee, 24 hours a day, and keep track of exactly how much time he or she is really spending on his or her work.
Libyan authorities have been involved in a tussle with the International Criminal Court over where Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, should stand trial over his role in the uprising that ended his father's rule.
All 14 members of Fenland District Council's planning committee were ordered to stand down over the row.
But some candidates in England were forced to stand down over a minor offence committed during their formative years.
Venezuela wants him extradited to stand trial over the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976.
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Lord Hanningfield, the former leader of Essex County Council, was the first parliamentarian from the East to stand trial over his expense claims.
Shrien Dewani, 31, from Bristol, is appealing against an order for his extradition to stand trial over the killing of 28-year-old Anni Dewani.
Mr Owen committed suicide two years ago shortly before he was to stand trial over allegations by former pupils of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, Pontypridd.
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Shrien Dewani, 31, is appealing against an order for his extradition to stand trial over the death of his wife Anni in Cape Town.
Labour's Phil Dilks, who stood down in Lincolnshire, said he was "deeply disappointed at not being able to stand" over an incident involving a stolen crash helmet in 1968.
Each unit about to deploy trains its own "guardian angels" - soldiers who stand watch over their comrades, even when they are with their Afghan allies at a meeting, or "shura".
The inquiry had been examining allegations of abuse by teacher John Owen, who committed suicide two years ago shortly before he was to stand trial over allegations by former pupils of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, Pontypridd.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Advice sought on 'contempt' referral
The rest of the world is equally anxious about the current stand-off over Iraq, the crisis caused by North Korea's newly aggressive stand on nuclear weapons, and the war on terrorism.
Dutch brewer Heineken has ended the stand-off over control of the maker of Tiger beer, by garnering the support of a Thai billionaire.
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The talks are expected to focus on the Middle East, the stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme, North Korea's missile tests, energy security and the Balkans.
August was a particularly unfortunate month: it began with a reckless stand-off over raising the national debt limit and a downgrade to America's credit rating, and ended with a hurricane.
To give you an idea on where we stand now, over the last 30 years, the percentage of bulls heading into August has averaged about 44% (the range was from 30% to 58%).
Against that backdrop the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has said for a long time that the NHS will need to make big efficiency savings "in order to stand still" over the coming years.
And because we did, we can stand here just over a year later, and say that we prevented another depression, we broke the back of the recession, and the economy that was shrinking a year ago is growing today.
It's the difference between the idealised rural England (slivers of tour-bus Oxfordshire) and the real countryside of bungalow-sprawl, derelict factory units, impromptu rubbish tips in woodland glades, sinister hamburger-tossers in laybys, empurpled stand-offs over travellers' sites and local people who find themselves stranded by everyone from bus companies to banks.
Alam swiped his third ball over the VIP stand at mid-wicket and when he just cleared long-on for six more in the next over from Fernando it left 13 needed from the final six balls.
Her conviction to stand by the principles over rode her fear of the consequences.
The German government's failure to fully back Britain over its stand-off with Russia will not help matters either.
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