Weighing these forces, the Federal Open Market Committee chose to keep the stance of policy unchanged over the first half of 1998.
Others were less concerned with religious responsibility and more preoccupied with defending themselves against the "other" – a stance that has kept the American firearms industry thriving for decades.
Mrs Palin's office, for example, hired a PR firm to promote her stance on oil, but kept the public in the dark during troopergate.
In archery, if you don't keep the same physical stance from shot to shot, you ruin your chances of shooting arrows that hit the mark.
"The E.C.B. should keep the current monetary policy stance for the foreseeable future," Marie Diron, an economist, said in a note Thursday.
Leonard Cohen kept returning to the stance of a supplicant at the Beacon Theater on Thursday night, dropping to one knee, or both, to intone his wry and ruminative songs.
Cameron said he would keep the issue under review, a stance that gives Whitehall time to work out a scheme with the Home Office, local councils and international agencies.
From the 1920s under Japanese colonial rule, the Korean Christians had kept antagonistic stance against growing communist movements.
"If you look back at the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam, I believe that our forefathers kept their stance, and I think they did the right thing.
The government had kept an aloof stance toward the protests until late last week, hoping they would peter out.
And according to fellow scholar John Barclay Jamess's stance was "to keep the boundaries of the nation secure...no mixing of the races...keeping the Jewish tradition undiluted".
