Sentence examples for stance instead of from inspiring English sources

Carney is voicing a conciliatory stance instead of an adversarial stance.

In the Falluja operation, and the decision to arrest Mr. Sadr, American officials here appeared to have settled on a high-risk strategy, adopting a tougher stance instead of seeking, as they often have in the past, to avoid confrontation that might fan antagonism for the Americans.

You are much more likely to get what you want when the other person is in a relaxed stance instead of the warrior pose.

In an effort to overcome Australia's leg stump attack Headley had altered his batting stance; instead of standing at right angles to the bowler, he turned his body more front-on, to enable him to improve his placement of the ball on the leg side.

As a result of these problems with pace bowling Rhodes altered his batting stance to use the "two-eyed stance"; instead of using the traditional technique of standing at right angles to the bowler, the batsman turned his body towards the bowler.

Since the retirement of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary and the failed assassination attempt on vocal senior journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi, the judiciary and the media have also been intimidated and pushed back to such an extent that they have begun to submit to the official stance instead of confronting it.

Fourth, the modernist liberal trend should be supported effectively with clear stances, instead of the Obama Administration supporting only moderate Islam, on the basis with which it has promoted itself to be -- i.e. as the alternative to extremist Islam and the deterrent against it.

During this card Cotto utilized a defensive stance with his hands in a high position instead of his usual aggressive orthodox stance.

A straw man argument is one in which someone misrepresents an opponent's stances, then attacks the weakened position instead of the real one.

But unlike the authors of these overtly fictionalized accounts, Voltaire innovated by adopting a journalistic stance instead, one that offered readers an empirically recognizable account of several aspects of English society.

Today's orthotics should be designed to apply the external orthosis moment to the knee joint solely during the stance phase instead of the entire gait cycle.