On one side were officials like Ron Bloom, until earlier this year the president's senior counselor for manufacturing policy, who favored more aggressive stances to counter policies used by Asian countries.
Iran says the hostages are pilgrims and has asked Turkey and Qatar, which have good relations with the rebels, to intervene to get them freed.Iran's loyalty to Mr Assad is partly meant to counter the stance of its regional rival, Saudi Arabia, in favour of Syria's rebels.
Avoid using any fighting stance unless you are going to counter a strike.
To counter any dominant stance she may display, assert yourself into a 'big' figure, standing slightly on your tiptoes if necessary to give this illusion.
If the mortgage industry is not ready to deal, Congress and state and local officials should assert the public interest, giving homeowners and communities more leeway to counter the industry's stance.
In the Senate hearings he also had to counter repeated questions over his stance on nuclear disarmament and why he opposed the troop surge in Iraq.
Samsung's primary goal in its legal wrangling with Apple appears to be to counter that company's aggressive stance with regards to patent litigation, as indicated by another statement received by Reuters from the Korean company.
This stance allowed them to counter-argue messages to quit, and distanced them from the risks they created and faced.
They contrast a "leading from behind" strategy in the Middle East and Europe with the more proactive U.S. stance in Asia, where Obama is acting diplomatically and militarily to counter growing Chinese influence.
However, in a continuation of the EDL's anti-Islamist stance, Mr Robinson wrote in a statement at the time that he plans to "counter Islamist ideology not with violence but with better, democratic ideas".
