I have taken what I consider to be a pragmatic stance based on intent and action.
In one instance a female politician argues against killing civilians, only to justify her stance based on the need to win a propaganda war against the enemy.
Beijing's stance, based on its very different calculations about how best to handle the North, is almost exactly the opposite of Washington's.
Rupert Smith, the British commander of UN forces in Bosnia, gave a semi-public warning in March 1995 that a stance based on mere peacekeeping would soon become untenable.
Some would claim that Glass's compositional stance, based on repetition and discrete blocks of material, is antithetical to the essentially dialectical approach of the Austro-German symphonic tradition, as exemplified in the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler.
A foreign office spokesman put forward a pedestrian justification of the government's stance based on being able to "fully consider the large volume of relevant material already identified that cannot be disclosed openly without a real risk of causing substantial harm or real damage to the public interest".
The medical profession can, and should, adopt a zero-tolerance ethical stance based on a) the potential for harm to the patient with b) no offsetting potential benefits for the patient, combined with c) the inevitable harm to trust in the medical profession itself".
Fig. 8 a Example of a digitigrade stance based on the limbs of trilobites.
b A plantigrade stance based on the limbs of extant scorpions, the plantigrade segments of the limb termination in gray.
The study finds that incubation programs that add value most effectively are those that adopt a pro-active business-development stance based on a sound appreciation of the business needs of their clients' characteristics in these pro-active, direct intervention systems.
"We take our stance based on what we believe are the best interests of the Latino community, and we have not been pressured by these companies," Wilkes said.
