Conventional wisdom holds that Republican candidates will have to cater to conservative voters to win the nomination and hence avoid embracing the positions that climate change is caused by humans and that government should do something about it.
Gibbs's targets are Democrats, not leftists; unrecontructed Obamaphiles who fault Obama only for not embracing the positions he campaigned on.
The Obama Administration has, in its practices, embraced the position that the leaking of classified information to reporters is a problem properly addressed with the Espionage Act.
As a monk, Methodius embraced the position of the Iconodules, who supported the veneration of images, as opposed to the Iconoclasts, who denounced the veneration of images.
Mitchell moved the 6-foot-11 Villanueva to small forward when the Raptors traded Jalen Rose to the Knicks, and Villanueva has embraced the position.
The tribal nationalist is stupid because he fails to recognize that, given a slight change of location and accident of birth, he would have embraced the position of his adversary.
Daniel Sturridge may not entirely agree with that final assessment, having received a few public rollickings from his former strike partner, but it is imperative the England international embraces the position of Liverpool's leader striker following the finest season of his career and the responsibility that comes with it.
But, after courageous and careful interrogation of his feelings, he embraced the position of the stoics, who placed grief in a category of negative passions or humours, forbidden to their sages, which included malice, envy, jealousy, pity, worry and melancholy (from melas, "black", and khole, "bile").
Like his predecessors in both parties, Mr. Ryan has had to embrace the positions and political imperatives of his new boss, subordinating his own.
In introducing Don't Ask Don't Tell and signing the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, he was making the judgement that America wasn't yet ready to embrace the positions that many highly-educated urban liberals supported.
