Sentence examples for maintained that stance from inspiring English sources

Obama was adamant that any discussion on the budget would be contingent upon fully reopening the government, and he maintained that stance as the October 17 deadline for extending the national debt ceiling approached and with it the threat of default.

The company's executives have consistently refused public comment on Google's plans for a public offering and they maintained that stance on Friday.

"I never considered myself to be a political dissident," Liao said at the time, and, indeed, he has maintained that stance throughout.

Many officers who made such allegations against supporters in their original 1989 accounts, which the force notoriously vetted and altered, maintained that stance under scathing challenge by the families' barristers.

Koukash, who spent six hours on Monday at the RFL's Leeds headquarters with his three-man legal team, emerged to say he did not believe his club had received a fair hearing and on Tuesday morning he maintained that stance.

Torre has been reluctant to answer hypothetical questions about trade possibilities since last week, and he maintained that stance today even though he was responsible for informing reporters about the interestingly timed lunch.

Maintaining that stance may mean forgoing an agreement that would roll over some hefty debt payments to the IMF.

He was allowed to maintain that stance pretty well unimpeded, thanks to the much-noted lack of forensic precision from the inquiry team.

Since the shooting he has won acclaim for maintaining that stance; at a news conference Monday morning Brown appeared stoic and straight-backed, but confessed he was "running on fumes".

Maintaining that stance is only going to become more difficult as it grows.

With their eyes open, subjects raised the nonstanding leg so that the raised foot was near but not touching the ankle of the stance limb and maintained that position for as long as long as they could up to a maximum of 60 seconds.