The alternative plan itself stands no chance of enactment.

They'll abandon plans to go whitewater rafting and stand by a telephone, calling repeatedly until they reach you.

If the Authority had had anything like Paul's surveillance equipment, the plan would not have stood a chance.

Using a front company so the plans stood a better chance of going through.

If it was already afraid of the unknown, then Wolruf's plan stood a good chance of working.

Your plans, whatever they might be, wouldn't stand a chance.

A plan to raise the price of a 7-day MetroCard to $24, from $21, still stands, officials said.

It wasn't me he primarily wanted, after all, so the plans he and his cohorts had made would stand.

"So I can call Polax and tell him the plan still stands?"

If Beria's original plan had stood, we would have discovered the theft later.