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.
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.
3 He did not purposely say things to please her, but whatever he was saying he regarded from her standpoint.
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.
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. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter II.