Sentence examples for a default stance from inspiring English sources

Ontological reduction in this weaker sense is a default stance nowadays among philosophers and biologists though the philosophical details remain controversial, such as whether there are genuinely emergent properties.

In the present paper, we focus on one newly salient aspect of this debate whether agents causing noncancer toxicity at high exposure levels should, as a general principle or a default stance, be presumed to cause some degree of risk of these same endpoints at any positive dose, no matter how low.

Social or political climate has a significant influence on the default stance that one ought to take toward people's trustworthiness (see e.g. Walker 2006).

Because I think our default, our default stance is that the work is like a factory – we're supposed to know what to do.

But the rest of the world will now return to its default stance of ignoring Slovakia.

The BBC political editorship's default stance – well-exemplified during Nick Robinson's tenure – is more interpreter than newshound.

The default stance of someone in Alex Neil's position would normally be to claim ignorance of the scepticism which surrounded his appointment, aged 33, as manager of Norwich City.

After moving to New York in 2001 and running for senator, she adopted the default stance of most elected officials from the Empire State: unstinting support for Israel.

Sajid Javid, the department's secretary, has previously said the government would streamline the process and that its "default" stance will be to approve applications.

The default stance on King's Candy Crush Saga mobile game in the Guardian's comments section seems to be "It's rubbish and cynical, and the people who play it are fools".

Let's be skeptical, by all means; but let's not assume guilt and bad faith as our default stance.