With a few exceptions, fashion designers' taste for courting controversy is limited to the aesthetic realm: an exposed breast, say, or perhaps a stand against using fur.
The location, perhaps a stand in for Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the original trilogy, might account for the smear of sand on the clapboard.
But this sort of statement is a minor sin, easily (and cleverly) attributed not necessarily to Alarcón, but to his narrator, who is young and male and — perhaps — a stand-in for that particular type for whom Madonna-whore is more ideology than complex.
Morgan Stanley, now with a bank holding company license, would be taking a bigger stake in the combined company, with the ultimate goal a complete takeover or perhaps a stand-alone company.
He envisions service from the World Financial Center or Pier 11, near Wall Street, to 69th Street, where there might be a ticket office, waiting room and perhaps a coffee stand.
A bedroom might have a simple bed (or even just a mattress), a dresser, and perhaps a night stand or bookshelf.
Acuras look and drive like fancy Hondas and are frequently perceived as such, whereas Toyota Motor' s Lexus subsidiary is perhaps a stronger stand-alone, premium nameplate.
The harder it is for a scientist to use a system compared to an ad-hoc hack, script, or perhaps a suboptimal stand-alone tool, the lower the widespread acceptance of a workflow system is in the wider bioinformatics and computational biology community.
The Iranian position is nuanced, but suggests that there may, at the very least, be a slim opening for some behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and who knows — perhaps even a stand-down position for Assad as a last-ditch measure to forestall a military attack by the United States and France.
After taking what was perhaps too principled a stand in a complex dispute over Housing Improvement Grants, he was moved sideways to the post of minister of state at the Treasury.
