1.   He needs to improve his standing among female voters.

2.   Their supervisors are constantly giving them feedback on how to improve their standing, which they eagerly accept and respond to.

3.   His father, now dead, had had a reputation, and the assumption of his mantle undoubtedly improved his standing in the eyes of the smarter people.

4.   Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing.

5.   Analysts say that Lehman is trying to rebuild its earnings and tightly control costs to improve its standing with credit rating agencies.

6.   As blacks improved their standing and became legally, socially and economically mobile, the area fell into decline and has not recovered.

7.   BC leads the way for the New England teams that will use this week to improve their standing in preparation for the NCAA Tournament, which begins next week.

8.   After the invasion failed, John Kennedy took full personal blame for the fiasco and thereby improved his standing with the American people.

9.   But he said he believed that Pataki was trying to exploit the Duckman case to improve his standing.