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What does stance mean?
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Examples stance examples
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Simple sentences
He took an uncertain stance.
He had a strong stance on the subject.
Movie subtitles
All right, take your stance.
The company exploited our weakness and took an even tougher stance.
Stance!
This sober stance isn't enough.
Your stance is all mashed up.
It's not a moral stance.
Take your stance.
The American grizzly must always be portrayed in a fighting stance.
So call for the Minister of Defence, saying, that he has changed its stance.
There's the famous Goat Stance.
The pine tree was struck down. But our founder. Held his stance.
But Big-mouth Ho said. Your stance's no good.
What's the name of this stance?
It's the crazy horse stance.
I accept this second stance of pascal's completely.
It's not a moral stance. I just don't see the point of it.
Although, to this day, I still wonder what would've happened if I had choked up on that bat and closed my stance a little.
Go over there and do the tiger claw and the crane stance and the chicken wing and all that other crap in the corner.
Northern Eighteen Styles Stance.
Yun Fei who has no political stance and admirable self-confidence?
It is not so easy to break this stance.
And that Horse's Stance is completely bowlegged.
See how good his Horse Stance is?
We'll start with five hours Horse Stance.
Hey, your Horse's Stance is improving.
My stance that I don't really like you is still the same.
You must take account of my stance and don't let me down.
Sir, would you take your boxing stance right here, please?
Where's your special stance?
Use the stance!
I want to break your stance!
One week later, the Akashi family formed an alliance with the Kojima family, the biggestyakuza gang in Okayama, revealing theirconfrontational stance.
This is a firm offer, Mr. Damico. This is not a bargaining stance.
The proper stance. I believe, is not to criticize from the outside, but to get inside and help create.
Study our stance, our movements and our style.
Got to get in yawping stance.
News and current affairs
This stance, however, has not prevented the spread of something for which a German word is used in other languages, too: Angst.
Investors in Enron waited years before discovering that something was amiss. Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
It is, of course, in times of economic downturn that countries worry most about their credit rating, so the IMF stance is particularly unhelpful.
This is reflected in Sarkozy's openly pro-American stance - an act of political courage in a France where anti-Americanism is running high.
Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait-and-see stance that makes the slowdown partly self-fulfilling.
This stance - suggested by America's opposition to granting Palestine observer-state status at the United Nations - would amount to an admission by the US that it has given up on the creation of two states in the Middle East.
Their vision of a chauvinistic, inward-looking Serbia has been discredited, while Djindjic's stance may become more popular due to his martyrdom.
Syria's stance might limit, rather than extend, the reach of Iran's strategy of regional destabilization.
The Commission's stance, in particular, is animated by an institutional commitment to a fiscal viewpoint that leaves no room for evidence.
NEW YORK - During their most recent meetings, the G-8 took a strong stance against protectionist measures in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI), echoing calls for a moratorium in such measures issued earlier by the G-20.
He may well have maintained that stance had China not established the ADIZ, which set an ominous new precedent by usurping international airspace over the East China Sea, including areas that China does not control.
Rouhani recently had an opportunity to discuss Iran's stance.
To be sure, Hamas has not abandoned its resistance mantra; even so, it has moderated its stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over time.
While Meshal maintained a hardline stance in his speech in Gaza (see below), in private discussions he expressed a readiness to accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
We were astonished during President George W. Bush's first term at the administration's hostility to science, reflected in its stance on climate change and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Its constructive stance derives from a worldview that accords pride of place to the values of democracy, social justice, economic development, and environmental protection.
But, as China's increasingly assertive stance in the South and East China Seas starkly demonstrates, this idea is not only wrong; it can be very dangerous.
Regardless of the government's fiscal-policy stance, this interest rate cannot move below zero.
More important, Cameron has said almost nothing about either Europe or immigration; and, though Miliband's clearly stated pro-EU stance has endeared his candidacy to many business leaders, he, too, has played down the issue.
The problem now is that the British stance is strengthening the centrifugal forces now at work in the EU.
Others take a flagrantly sexist stance, arguing that a woman president would be a non-starter as long as the North Korean regime continues to threaten national security.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
But they know that an excessively aggressive stance toward the US would undermine their interest in a stable global economy and the safe passage of their goods and energy through international sea and air routes.
If that idealistic democrat Nehru had not been cremated, India's stance toward Burma might cause him to turn over in his grave.
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