Sentence examples for making a stance from inspiring English sources

You knew you were making a stance.

"I think maybe the stand-up, making a stance, telling everybody to shut up and we're going to go about our business, maybe that was more important.

Craig Murray, who became a human rights campaigner after being sacked as Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan for making a stance against torture, is to stand in the North Norwich byelection as an anti-sleaze candidate.

Last night showed two different people making a stance with rather serious implications.

But on the contrary, I do want to compliment social media and the women who are making a stance in fashion like Ashley Graham.

Sometimes you have to make a stance.

I get that attitude from my mum's side – if I've been done wrong then I'll make a stance.

It's not a new thematic exhibition, but I think I can have a view that will make a stance: mainly, connecting artworks that are in the collection with work by architects.

Yet suggestions Lotus, Force India and Sauber were prepared to make a stance in front of an expected 100,000 crowd and 350 million global television audience are wide of the mark.

Probably the world's largest-ever rock group, Artists United Against Apartheid, made a stance against South Africa's policy of paying outrageous sums to northern hemisphere performers in order to legitimise its apartheid system in the face of its international pariahdom.

"(Former Celtic manager) Martin O'Neill made a stance against it in 2005 and got shot down by a lot of people in the media.