"prior stance" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to refer to an opinion or action that someone had, said, or took before. For example: "My prior stance on the issue was that it was too controversial to discuss, but I now realize that we need to talk about it."
What was its prior stance?
Reversing her prior stance, she studies her schoolmates and decides they're not suffering after all.
The Bush administration also had political and diplomatic reasons to reverse its prior stance of "tough love" when it came to Brazil.
The lead counsel for Prop 8, for example, invoked the president's prior stance in his opening statement to the district court to suggest that even pro-gay individuals could coherently oppose same-sex marriage.
"I came to the realization that I was way off base," Mr. Reid said of his prior stance, one he said he reversed after his wife, Landra, reminded him that she was the daughter of a Russian immigrant.
Your dad ran for president, and one day, in explaining his prior stance on Vietnam, he confessed something that was painfully true: "I was brainwashed".
But it appears Cupertino may be willing to move faster than its prior overly cautious stance — perhaps to make up some lost ground and win back the support of bitcoin users.
In August 2016 the social networking giant caused massive controversy when its messaging platform WhatsApp announced a privacy U-turn — saying it would shortly begin sharing user data with its parent, Facebook, and Facebook's network of companies, despite the founder's prior publicly stated stance that user privacy would never be compromised as a result of the Facebook acquisition.
He was later honored by GLAAD for his prior pro-gay stances and his reversal on DOMA.
Here, we emphasize the importance of utilizing hypothesis-based models that are from a deductive-scientific stance, with prior knowledge or related theory.
It is also unusual for a Democrat to be attacked for an overly pro-gun stance -- prior to the Newtown shooting, many Democrats had essentially conceded the issue to Republicans.
