Sentence examples for as a stance from inspiring English sources

Some see crafting as a stance against mass culture and consumerism: individuality triumphing over uniformity.

In this engaging biography, Sutherland interprets the butterfly as a stance of rebellion for an artist whose gentle palette belied fierce modernist intentions.

All speakers were keen to attack Obama's foreign policy as a stance of weakness that had diminished America's role in international affairs.

Claire Messud, a novelist and critic, refers to the intertwining of Ms. McCarthy's appearance and pointed intellect as a stance inherited from Edith Wharton and "the glamorous Europeans, like Louise de Vilmorin or the Mitfords or Elizabeth Bowen".

When we look back in a few years, Hawking's decision to respect BDS may be seen as a turning point – the moment when boycotting Israel as a stance for justice went mainstream.

The term "whatevs" — and its root, "whatever" — is used primarily as a verbal prophylactic against disappointment, but it can also be adopted as a stance, which is what you may need to get through the thirty-three-year-old playwright Liz Flahive's politically regressive comedic drama.

The natural inclination, whether you were a columnist, a tweeter or a water cooler bore, was to take as strident a stance as possible.

"I think the Democrats ought to take as strong a stance as possible," she said.

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But few, if any, have staked out as unambiguous a stance as the ANA has. .

Instead, Hague foolishly described the spending as reckless, a stance that unified Labour.