1.   At least consumers have the ultimate option of standing pat and waiting for the waters to calm again.

2.   But the underlying economic worry is that standing pat will risk losing vacationers to land-based tourist resorts.

3.   I feel we can win our division definitely, standing pat.

4.   In a yearlong offensive struggle for Delino DeShields, no one can accuse him of standing pat.

5.   Melvin is being rebuked in public print and on the radio talk shows for seemingly standing pat, while more emboldened general managers wheeled and dealed around him.

6.   Professor Benjamin Friedman of Harvard University makes the best case for standing pat.

7.   The latest official statistics -- almost ideal in the eyes of most economists -- left central bankers little choice other than standing pat.

8.   The latest official statistics, which are almost ideal in the eyes of most politicians and economists, gave central bankers little choice other than standing pat.

9.   Which takes us back to the Patrick mess and standing pat with Mess.

10.   For the most part, La Russa would be happy standing pat.