With a classic grounded theory stance, we use mixed data and techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, to conceptualize, define, and model this new variable; we develop a quantitative index to assess it at a given moment in time.
Matt Corley notes, "It's unclear why Politico characterizes Inhofe's decided support for the 'birthers' as an 'elusive middle ground' stance".
By maintaining an independent, middle-ground stance on Assad, Delhi can maintain more leverage with all sides as they seek to win her over to their position.
Insects generally employ either a tripod gait in which three legs swing forward and the other three push backward against the ground (stance)—or a tetrapod gait, in which two legs are in swing and the remaining four are in stance.
Sadly, a typical product team's high ground stance that neglects this responsibility may actually be making the user worse off – a little like our idealistic no-deadlines professor did to his students.
And second, it shows that Google's moral-high ground stance was even effective within some parts of China.
These parameters are suggestive of inadequate function of the limbs, since the ratio of duration between the time when the foot is on the ground (stance time) and the time when the foot is off the ground (swing time) [ 13, 25, 26] was not maintained.
Most recently, Sebelius offered a third veto to a bill that would have paved the way for the construction of two new coal-fired units in western Kansas, and she did it primarily on environmental grounds, a stance that a decade ago would have amounted to political suicide.
He has ruled out placing American forces on the ground, a stance he reiterated on Friday at a new conference in San José, Costa Rica, where he was meeting with Latin American leaders.
Obama assured the public this new effort won't involve putting U.S. troops on the ground, a stance he has repeatedly taken in his recent comments on the Islamic State.
This study was set within a constructivist Grounded Theory framework [ 30], taking the stance that knowledge is not 'discovered' but co-constructed.
