Sentence examples for customary stance from inspiring English sources
(Appropriately, a recent campus rage has been a contest called "show us your Bocuse," challenging students to be photographed assuming the chef's customary stance).
He said that Frank Robinson used to deceive pitchers with his plate-crowding (Robinson was a right-handed slugger of fearsome power, whose customary stance at the plate was that of an impatient subway traveller leaning over the edge of the platform and peering down the tracks for the D train), because they took it to mean that he was eager for an inside pitch.
Officially, China maintains its customary diplomatic stance of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries.
Josh assumed his customary filming stance: crouched at the knees, with the camera bent at a zany angle.
Unconventional interventions by the European Central Bank (ECB) over the past few years might have been expected to weaken the currency, because the bank was seen as departing from its customary hardline stance.
He fought back tears when the fans gave him a standing ovation after a one-minute clip was shown on the stadium's video boards just before kickoff, and during the game he was back to his routine: taking his customary linebacker stance, hands on knees, and signaling touchdowns when the Colts scored, patting players on their helmets, and gesturing for flags to be thrown.
Outside the academy, Anderson's criticisms of conventional morality and his account of positive ethical goods promoting a stance of commitment, endeavour, risk and critical opposition to merely customary expectations was a powerful tonic for a small but influential group of anti-careerist intellectuals, lawyers, journalists and artists collectively known as the "Sydney Push".
But its biggest asset is Ms. Chism's stance of forgiveness and acceptance (she also wrote the script), so at odds with Mr. Perry's customary and often severe brand of tough love.
(Commercial yeasts are customary).
