Sentence examples for specific stand from inspiring English sources

Rather, the working Republican hypothesis seems to be that the damaged economy will trump any specific stand on the issues.

After supporting embryonic stem cell research generally, Mr. Romney took a more specific stand against creating embryos for scientific experimentation.

The president has not taken a specific stand on exploration in the Great Lakes, but his energy policy is based on increasing domestic oil and gas production.

(For instance, an internal email on the immigration executive order took no specific stand). The evidence is stacked against Trump and Spicer, and we award them Four Pinocchios.

"Looking at the politics of the situation, I doubt whether any of the developing countries will make any commitments before they have seen the developed countries take a specific stand".

Just as apparatchiks once flocked to Marx's house, Chinese literature lovers began trooping to a muddy riverbank on the campus of Cambridge University to glimpse a specific stand of willow trees.

Public opinion surveys are useful in measuring attitudes toward a specific, stand-alone issue.

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The books by Mr. Richardson, Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani not only emphasize process over policy but also promote the proposition that government can be run like a business, that problem-solving and managerial efficiency — rather than specific stands on issues — are the keys to leadership.

This "being at stake" or "being in question for oneself" is made concrete in the specific stands we take that is, in the roles we enact over the course of our lives.

Jozen Cummings of The Wall Street Journal described the show as Knowles' "most intimate work to date", adding that it was an intimate night between "Beyoncé and her fans, one in which there need not be a specific stand-out moment".