Nationwide's hardline stance emerged as a consumer revolt over "illegal" bank and credit card charges gathered pace this week.
Her stance emerged just as Congressional leaders and the White House opened delicate negotiations over a new war-financing measure to replace the one that Mr. Bush vetoed Tuesday.
In a minority of interviews, however, a more radical stance emerges, which questions the commonsensical view of aspirations as something out there, just ready for use.
The billionaires' differing stances emerged as the gold price fell by a further 1.6% and silver rounded off its worst week in at least 35 years, dropping another 9.6% to take its losses over the week to a startling 29%.
There are many other examples, and the pattern has been laid out many times before, as in my 2006 article "Yelling Fire on a Hot Planet" and 2007 piece on "A New Middle Stance Emerges in Debate Over Climate" (which some critics saw as falsely equivalent, as well).
I still like how Carl Wunsch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology summarized things in my 2007 article, "A New Middle Stance Emerges in Debate over Climate" (of course that article prompted lots of slings and arrows, too): "Climate change presents a very real risk," said Carl Wunsch, a climate and oceans expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The assembly's aggressive stance signaled an emerging new political order in which the legislature asserts its constitutional role as the highest government institution after nearly a half-century of strongman rule.
However, Horkheimer and Marcuse saw the skeptical and relativist stance of the emerging sociology of knowledge, particularly that of Karl Mannheim, as precisely opposed to that of Critical Theory.
However, the interviewer maintained an open stance and pursued emerging themes and sought clarifications as necessary.
By looking at the Classical Formulation, we can see how different stances might emerge.
