Sentence examples for stance upon from inspiring English sources
They did not set any new terms Sunday, but reserved the right to toughen their stance upon review.
Goodwin devoted a significant amount of time this winter to watching film of Duda in the outfield and noticed he had a tendency to pop out of his defensive stance upon seeing the batter make contact, slowing his first step.
The field is spoken of as being divided lengthwise into off and on, or leg, sides in relation to the batsmen's stance, depending upon whether he bats right- or left-handed; the off side is the side facing the batsman, and the on, or leg, side is the side behind him as he stands to receive the ball.
They normally have a period of intense, behind-the-scenes disagreement -- and then they all appear before the cameras with smiles and identical soundbites to describe the agreed-upon stance on policy.
It is feared that such a stance would force upon us a kind of tolerance of all manner of undesirable behaviors, from acts of rudeness to Nazi atrocities.
Those who say that it might not be often explain their stance by calling upon a well-rehearsed idea of what it means to be an American.
This stance, however, rests upon a rather unlikely assumption that all people carry the same propensity to participate in survey research.
Artificial neural systems and nervous graph theoretical analysis rely upon the stance that the neural code is embodied in logic circuits, e.g., spatio-temporal sequences of ON/OFF spiking neurons.
When Goldstein maintained his categorical stance, Justice Anthony Kennedy built upon Ginsburg's question, asking if "the reasonable suspicion test is more easily met if it's a felon detained for a serious felony".
He spoke in a wide-ranging conversation that touched upon his stance against same-sex marriage, his disappointment with the presidential campaigns, and the role of faith in an increasingly secular society.
Sure there are issues I'm sure I don't agree with him upon, like his stance on ethanol, but he'll come around.
