There are riposte and parry stances, meaning you have to think through what attacks to use on which enemies.
Some batters close their stance slightly, meaning they move their front foot a few inches closer to the plate than their back foot; this keeps their hips and shoulders from "flying open" and positions them to drive the ball the other way.
Cross-case analysis revealed that each preservice teacher's stance on meaning, while idiosyncratically based on experience, was tied to pedagogy in two distinct ways: (a) most of the participants placed an increasingly important role on the supervising teacher when considering reading difficulties and (b) they situated themselves as a teacher within that context.
But, says John Delury of Yonsei University, that may become a problem if the next South Korean president has more of a "sunshine" approach (meaning a stance favouring engagement and investment).
Youngblood says that Silva then "took a rigid stance" – the word stance in this case actually meaning the exact opposite because Silva seems to have been lying "rigidly" on the ground.
His stance was widely interpreted as meaning that he would cut the program, primarily by making fewer students eligible — the same approach that his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, took in his proposed budget.
We interpreted the observed behaviours of patients by taking a person-centred stance (Brooker 2007; Kitwood 1997), meaning that we took the perspective of the person with dementia to interpret the intention or purpose of the behaviour.
And even when short-term rates start to rise, the stance of policy will remain loose, meaning there will still be some upward pressure on the balance sheet of the Fed, which it can satisfy by buying more Treasuries.
Ornithopod, any member of the group of ornithischian dinosaurs characterized by a two-legged (bipedal) stance, from which the group's name, meaning "bird-foot," is derived.
