Sentence examples for stance like the from inspiring English sources

He explained that you have to have a strong stance, like the roots of a great tree, because that is where you draw all your power and balance, but at the same time you need to be loose and agile -- quick to move to create angles, set up an attack, or block an opponent's kick.

Without a tougher stance – like that adopted by the Spanish and French administrations, which have raided offices in search of tax documents – May is unlikely to make much progress.

Tony Benn's stance, like that of opponents on the right, was central to all this.

Wherever one stands at the end of a such a philosophical argument  one will be committed not to any specific moral  stance (like turning the other cheek) but either to the thesis, again abstract,  that  moral stances are  anchored in and justified by an underlying truth about the nature of moral behavior or to the thesis that they are not.

This act coincides neither with intellectual states like uncertainty, doubt or conjecture, nor with volitional stances like the wish or the desire to know something.

Some were written from a sheer political or anti-religious stance, like "Storm The Gates Of Heaven".

But I never write from a stance like that — there isn't some pure, undamaged human type that I think we should all try to be.

One of the brief's signers, Thomas R. Pickering, said in an interview, that "it is unusual, and probably unprecedented," for such a large number of diplomats to take a public stance like this.

He says that members of both parties shy away from the hard stances, like raising the retirement age for Social Security or ruling out new tax cuts.

Utah's package includes measures to tighten enforcement against illegal immigrants that echo Arizona's tough stance — like a requirement that the police check the immigration status of anyone arrested on a felony or a serious misdemeanor charge.

"I like the artistic stance," Lee told me, with an exasperated laugh.