Sentence examples for embracing a position from inspiring English sources

For quite a while now, philosophers and public intellectuals, including Harris's friend Dennett, have tried to rescue something like the common notion of free will from the jaws of science and logic by embracing a position called compatibilism.

On the gasoline tax, the survey underlined the risk Mrs. Clinton is taking in embracing a position that most Americans — including a majority of her own supporters — appear to view as political pandering.

James concludes by embracing a position that he had more tentatively set forth in The Varieties of Religious Experience: that religious experiences "point with reasonable probability to the continuity of our consciousness with a wider spiritual environment from which the ordinary prudential man (who is the only man that scientific psychology, so called, takes cognizance of) is shut off" (PU, 135).

Gov.Huckabee, embracing a position that seems designed to rile his fellow social conservatives, has long been a proponent of music and arts education in the public schools.

Accorsi does not comment on off-season negotiations, but by his actions he has clearly embraced a position that the prudent course is to wait, not spend.

"In recognizing that women are the equals of men, the Church of England has embraced a position that is centuries ahead of Scalia's," Davis Logsdon, a professor of religion at the University of Minnesota, said.

But it was good to hear him embrace a position that was, after all, fairly mainstream for Republicans only a few years ago, before the hard right took over its agenda.

Any such recommendations could force Mr. Bush either to embrace a position that could carry heavy political cost or to disavow the work of his own, hand-picked advisers.

Even when he has initially embraced a position at variance with the administration's ultimate policy -- regarding the international family planning issue, for example -- Secretary Powell's sense of discipline, loyalty and discretion means that he never shows his true feelings publicly, according to aides and close friends.

Some Christians left ex-gay ministries and eventually began to embrace a position that's more affirming of gays and lesbians.

Hillary Clinton's campaign announced a proposal on Wednesday to eliminate tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes up to $125,000 — largely embracing a core position of Senator Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.