Sentence examples for stance in terms from inspiring English sources

Merkel, sitting pat on a record 2014 budget surplus, justified her stance in terms of the future needs of German pensioners.

(At least, I hope it isn't!) QUESTION FROM PAUL MARTIN: Is there an issue of conflict between the GOP's current stance (in terms of political sunk costs in their current position of rejecting nearly every bipartisan overture) and any sort of compromise?

RBC Capital Markets agrees that the statement is an early move towards giving 'forward guidance' of the Bank's future intentions, adding: The fact that the MPC has decided to express such a clear view about market rates is also a sign of a more aggressive stance in terms of communication.

I'd make special note of this observation: Projections suggest that some European countries had an unsound fiscal stance (in terms of debt-to-GDP ratio evolution) well before the 2008 09 financial crisis (Greece, Portugal, the UK); on the contrary, others had a sound fiscal stance (Spain, Ireland, Italy).

However, after analyses, I found my students were mostly endorsing their sources and so I mostly consider writer stance in terms of endorsing the external voice.

Which he argued means that fintechs playing on the institutional side "actually have a far greater stance in terms of collaboration".

In this way, however, we risk not understanding that at the basis of many failures there lie also endogenous factors, that depend on the culture of the discipline and some concrete stances in terms of institutional and professional practices.

A Bundesbank board member, Andreas Dombret, couched the German stance in quasi-religious terms, telling an audience in Dublin that a euro zone banking union must not "cover past sins" — for example, by taking on some of the Irish government's bank debt.

While Blatter stood by his stance against abandoning games in terms of combating the problem of racism in a broader sense, he did praise Boateng and the message the player sent out.

But Andre Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour at Cass Business School, doubted that the bank would maintain its ethical stance in the long term.

In countries such as Spain and Italy, however, these stances have been explained in terms of protecting the national workforce and advocating for better labour conditions (Watts, 2002).