Coming from a Western leader who oversees German forces in Afghanistan (while having refused to connect the word "war" to their presence during her first five years in office), it suggests a chancellor repositioning Germany, after its involvement in the Balkans and Afghanistan, toward its comfy old global political stance of non-engagement and righteousness.
After joining the UN in 1971, China initially took a stance of non-participation due to skepticism on the interventional policy.
By the mid-1880s, the Alliance reached a point where it had to abandon its original stance of non-partisanship and start flexing its political muscle.
Austria took a stance of non-intervention, but it was the French who carried the day with their proposal to prepare a joint invasion force.
The relatively immediate relief or distraction from emotional or internal experience that NSSI offers (see data on personal accounts; [ 43]) is incompatible with a mindful stance of non-judgement, acceptance, and awareness of emotional experience [ 19].
It was a tricky balance but Obama's stance of total non-interference is seen as a mistake that sent the wrong message to both people in Iran and across the region.
It still remains to be seen if AT&T will continue their peculiar stance of disabling non-Market installation of apps (as seen on the Motorola Backflip), but we're allowed to dream, right?
The conservative justices during the arguments voiced support for the stance of the non-union teachers in challenging the fees.
Interestingly, both the print area and the stance phase of non-arthritic paws from pristane-injected animals were markedly increased when compared with paws from control animals, suggesting a transposition of weight bearing from the arthritic to the non-arthritic limb.
In fact, I would argue that by NOT watching the film, one is taking a more assertive stance against acts of "non-affirmative consent".
While we hold the view that a non binding stance of benefit sharing affects its current standing in international research, we do not believe that the multiple ethical justifications in international research have also affected the stance of benefit sharing.
