Fahmy made clear his opposition to oppression in Syria, and implied Egypt's stance stemmed from practical reasoning that intervention would prove ineffective.
The characters would no longer balloon at will, like the Mickey of "The Barn Dance," but would keep their feet on the ground, with all the moral purpose that such a stance implied.
Needless to say, London is full of men in anoraks who have consulted the small print and detected the slight loosening of the government's fiscal stance implied in this week's budget.
But in a number of cases last year, financial markets read too much into the announcements, sending stock and bond prices gyrating on the assumption that the Fed's policy stance implied a preordained outcome to the central bank's next policy-setting meeting.
Meanwhile the pro-slavery side's stance implied non-personhood -- but that would have given the anti-slavery Northerners the advantage, and in any case was morally unacceptable to many of those Northerners.
In the early days, infatuation with the Beatles implied an unconscious oppositional stance, more curious than serious, and not at all threatening to the foundations of a socialist society.
The abandonment of strict Einstein realism implied by the relational stance permits to reconcile quantum mechanics, completeness and locality.
Today, Obama subtly softened the implied implacability of that stance, affirming simply, "We would've preferred Assad go two years ago, last year, two months ago, a month ago".
In addition, it implied assuming a political stance, another property, whose dimension represented a shifting from conformist to vigorously opposing the gender order.
