Ernie refined this stance and created a brilliantly funny, unique persona for Eric to bounce off: vain, snobbish, puritanical, mean, sexually naive, magnificently smug and given to delusions of artistic grandeur - Ernie: 'My mother's got a Whistler.' Eric: 'Now there's a novelty' - and almost all the humour came from Eric debunking Ernie's pretensions.
Jennings strongly condemned slavery in his inauguration speech and as governor, he refined his stance on the institution.
Convinced that Australia's numerically small forces would be hard-pressed to dislodge an invader that had gained a foothold on the continent, he refined the "repulsion" stance into what he termed an "anti-lodgement" strategy, focussing on defeating the enemy at its potential staging bases north of Australia and then, as a last resort, on the approaches closer to home.
The many filmed encounters with reporters show him constantly refining his confrontational stance, while with other musicians he sits back, absorbing new source material.
Since she fled her homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, Kimiko Yoshida -- through what is called "self-portraits" -- has refined and amplified a feminist stance of protest, cultivated and distanced from "current affairs".
In natural distinction of stance, line both astonishingly refined and blazingly forceful, easy good manners to others and rapt immersion in the story, he epitomizes everything that is already attractive about the young people around him.
The proposals, which one source describes as an opening stance and a "worst case scenario", will be refined and may be scaled back at a meeting between management and the National Union of Journalists on Wednesday afternoon.
Themes, categories and memos were coded into a word document which was refined and elaborated in light of incoming data and analysis employing an inductive stance.
And if not, what are the implications of his new, tough stance?On the face of it, there is some evidence that he has abandoned, or at least refined, his doctrine and a good thing too, say the hawks.
