One of the brief's signers, Thomas R. Pickering, said in an interview, that "it is unusual, and probably unprecedented," for such a large number of diplomats to take a public stance like this.
Stances like that one have landed her in trouble with Joseph F. Naumann, archbishop of Kansas City, who declared in May that she should not receive communion.
This act coincides neither with intellectual states like uncertainty, doubt or conjecture, nor with volitional stances like the wish or the desire to know something.
His stances, like those of Marghiloman, had their dose of ambiguity.
Since then, he has taken stances like these on major international crises he has confronted, from Ukraine to Libya, and Syria to Iran and Yemen.
Tony Benn's stance, like that of opponents on the right, was central to all this.
This attitude seems to have all but banished stances like "conservationist" or "preservationist" from the political lexicon, stances that used to be considered perfectly normal for a Republican to have.
Why does the L.C.W.R. take political stances, like protesting the Bush tax cuts?
This time, many of those younger people did not vote, put off by the opposition's ideologically driven stances, like its demand for a renegotiation or abrogation of a free trade agreement with the United States.
He says that members of both parties shy away from the hard stances, like raising the retirement age for Social Security or ruling out new tax cuts.
