Sentence examples for distant stance from inspiring English sources
The adviser called the move "a clumsy attempt to balance the administration's more distant stance on China".
In taking a more distant stance to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the style of the Bush administration is somewhat reminiscent, though in different circumstances, of that taken by the administration of President Bush's father, former President George Bush.
The game doesn't make the player do much, though, after cursory engagement – it's up to you whether or not to be sensitive to her situation, or take a more distant stance; understanding, for sure, but ostensibly disconnected from the core of the problem.
On occasion, feeling confined by his character's rhythms and diction, Wolfe will zoom up into a more distant, objective stance, as if Nestor's or Magdalena's consciousness were one of his old, sealed-up Project Mercury capsules and he couldn't resist blowing the hatch.
This explains the incongruence of LaPierre's distant gun control stance in 1999, when he called for gun-free school, versus his more recent calls for the proliferation of gun ownership.
While none of the other four candidates seem likely to win – Duffy is a distant second favourite – their stances highlight the choice faced by the party: how to expand its reach without upsetting the base.
He also rightly reminds us that the public was far more tolerant than the politicians and the moralising media and that Gielgud was greeted with loud ovations when he appeared in A Day By The Sea. Michael Feast, who appeared with Gielgud in No Man's Land, has used his close-up knowledge to capture the great man's mannerisms: the extended vowels, the poker-backed stance, the slightly distant gaze.
Even the conductor Arturo Toscanini, an avowed opponent of Fascism, gets the same neutral and distant treatment with no mention at all of his "anti-regime" stance.
Just two years ago, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata stated they wouldn't make smartphone games, but with the Wii U a distant third of three competitors in the generation-eight console race, a 180 on that stance makes perfect sense today.
