A diplomat said it was misleading to see him as "some sort of white knight" and pointed to inconsistencies between his present stance and his time in office.
"If he is bringing Ryan in to have his budget of the past as the present stance," she said, "it is going to be long row to hoe.
So the US president forcefully presented his stance, maintaining he was willing to compromise, and chastised others for failing to rise above their own interests.
Finally, I should like to present the stance of Polish fishermen, who have become the main victims of the mistaken and unfair cod fishing policy.
In 10 instances (9%), coders were unable to determine the authors' position (if any), and the remaining 39 (35%) were seen as taking no position, either because they did not address the issue of IPV screening, or because they presented no stance regarding screening.
Labor is presenting its new stance as being in the context of its recently announced policy to increase university funding at a total cost to the budget of $14bn over a decade.
"The effect of denying the services of Insite to the population it serves and the correlative increase in the risk of death and disease to injection drug users is grossly disproportionate to any benefit that Canada might derive from presenting a uniform stance on the possession of narcotics," the court wrote in its unanimous decision.
The Iranian delegation at Vienna nuclear talks has hit out against western negotiators, accusing them of changing their stance and presenting multiple positions, as the negotiations looked almost certain to pass a US congressional deadline.
After weeks of suspense in which he grabbed media headlines by presenting an increasingly hardline stance on national identity and the place of Islam in France, Sarkozy launched his campaign with an announcement on social media and a link to the first chapter of a book, Everything for France, which he will publish this week.
