Sentence examples for direct stance from inspiring English sources

He chose to take a direct stance.

I don't think you're going to see us take a direct stance on that.

However, they said the US would not take a direct stance against the PYD, which is now fighting against Isis".

Mr. Amano, though he spent most of his career in the cautious world of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, has been praised in recent days by American and other Western diplomats for taking a far more direct stance with Iran, insisting that it answer questions it had refused to talk about since the summer of 2008.

With this campaign, the privacy advocates have taken a direct stance, end the bulk collection of Americans' telephone records.

In that interview, Rubio didn't take a direct stance on the question of states' rights with regard to marijuana.

This survey (Serpentine Gallery, W2, Wed to 17 May) runs from his earliest works of the 1950s through to later paintings that took a direct political stance, protesting against the Vietnam war and human rights abuses.

Literature, on the other hand, has always taken a more complicated and occasionally far more direct, moralistic stance on the American dream in the face of everyday struggle – even, or especially, when that dream is packed in a moving truck, driven out of the city, and restaged in some sort of pastoral Eden.

But his presence before the emergency meeting underscored the continued evolution of power in the region away from state players aligned with the West, to non-state players, like Hamas, and their anti-Western benefactors who support a more direct and aggressive stance toward Israel.

But the ban on some naked short-selling was seen as a political stance directed mainly at a domestic audience.

Against the theoretical-metaphysical stance directed at an ever present objective reality, Yorck insists on the primacy of the personal, historical relation to the transcendent God.