STANDPOINT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for STANDPOINT, such as:

1. We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
2. He believes that from a military standpoint, the situation is under control.
3. As theorized by Nancy Hartsock in 1983, standpoint feminism is founded in Marxist ideology.
4. He did not purposely say things to please her, but whatever he was saying he regarded from her standpoint.

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 Meanings and Examples of STANDPOINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
standpoint
 n.  a mental position from which things are viewed
Classic Sentence:
1  From her standpoint there's only one reason for being afraid of you; and my own idea is that, if you want to punish her, you hold the means in your hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  She did not care to be mingled in their noisy dispersal: once in the street, she always felt an irresistible return to her old standpoint, an instinctive shrinking from all that was unpolished and promiscuous.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  He did not purposely say things to please her, but whatever he was saying he regarded from her standpoint.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVI
4  Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
5  Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reached the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
Example Sentence:
1  And from the standpoint of state and local law enforcement, often the best service our federal government can render is to do these things and do them right.
2  As theorized by Nancy Hartsock in 1983, standpoint feminism is founded in Marxist ideology.
3  We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
4  He believes that from a military standpoint, the situation is under control.