Sentence examples for softer positions from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Bush, adopting softer positions on issues like education and immigration meant accepting language flatly opposing abortion, even though he would personally allow it in cases of rape or incest or when a woman's life is in danger.

Many who favor an open channel to Cuba blame much of the unbending nature of exile dialogue on Miami's Spanish-language stations, whose talk-show hosts often label those with softer positions as Communists and even give out home phone numbers of people like Ms. Duarte.

Jeb Bush, a Florida Republican with softer positions on immigration than Rubio — he has supported tuition breaks for the children of illegal immigrants, for example — won nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in his last state-wide election, including fifty-five per cent of the Puerto Rican vote.

The first is a certain softer position of the US in negotiating with Russia.

But Ms. Merkel appeared to take a softer position, noting that the E.C.B. had made it clear it would buy bonds only if political leaders did their part.

The Rubio push comes as Mr. Romney tries to shift from the hard-line stance he took during the primary fight to a softer position that could erode President Obama's overwhelming edge with Hispanic voters.

Trump, who has made his tough approach to immigration the cornerstone of his campaign, has not always held such firm views on the issue, Rubio said, citing a report that the reality TV star privately expressed a much softer position to the New York Times.

(Unlike his wayward son, Franklin, Billy Graham had a softer position vis-à-vis Muslims).

"I never made the case that had to do with the social component in this," he told me in an interview, seeming to contradicting his previous statements while projecting a softer position on the issue.

Some officials of the IRGC might prefer an individual who holds countless détentes with the West, particularly the United States, pursues Iran's nuclear program without compromises, while others might prefer an individual with a softer position.

The coalition of Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine People's Self-Defense Bloc (OU-PSD) was put at risk due to deliberate misinterpretation of Tymoshenko's opinion on the ongoing 2008 South Ossetia War between Georgia and Russia.Yushchenko's office accused her of taking a softer position in order to gain support from Russia in the upcoming 2010 election.