With a classic grounded theory stance, we use mixed data and techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, to conceptualize, define, and model this new variable; we develop a quantitative index to assess it at a given moment in time.
And second, it shows that Google's moral-high ground stance was even effective within some parts of China.
Sadly, a typical product team's high ground stance that neglects this responsibility may actually be making the user worse off – a little like our idealistic no-deadlines professor did to his students.
Matt Corley notes, "It's unclear why Politico characterizes Inhofe's decided support for the 'birthers' as an 'elusive middle ground' stance".
By maintaining an independent, middle-ground stance on Assad, Delhi can maintain more leverage with all sides as they seek to win her over to their position.
Insects generally employ either a tripod gait in which three legs swing forward and the other three push backward against the ground (stance)—or a tetrapod gait, in which two legs are in swing and the remaining four are in stance.
These parameters are suggestive of inadequate function of the limbs, since the ratio of duration between the time when the foot is on the ground (stance time) and the time when the foot is off the ground (swing time) [ 13, 25, 26] was not maintained.
He said he might eventually support the idea that linemen would be prohibited from beginning plays with one or two hands on the ground, stances that boost their leverage against opposing players and, in turn, increase the potential for blows to the head.
Thrasymachus represents the essentially negative, cynical and debunking side of the immoralist stance, grounded in empirical observations of the ways of the world.
While from many other writers, this might come off as false modesty, Achebe's middle-grounded stance turns it into something else — an opportunity to make individual acts speak to larger human truths.
His willingness to listen, to think, and to put himself out there -- at certain risk of colleagues' criticism -- is the kind of morally-grounded stance we could use more of in politics, medicine and other professional fields.
