Rubin, whose influence remained enormous among the new Obama appointees, left Treasury to join Citigroup, a mega-bank that took on ever-riskier, life-threatening stances during his tenure while he managed to snare $126 million in cash and stock.
However, by raising questions about the integrity of the election process and by suggesting that criminal activity had been overlooked, the government's stance threatened to further erode what little faith Afghans' have left in their fledgling democratic institutions.
Mr. Boehner's stance threatened to throw Congress back into the debt-limit stalemate that consumed Washington in 2011, but this time at the height of a campaign that Republicans are trying to make a referendum on Mr. Obama's handling of the economy.
Some said they were insulted and angry, others that they were concerned that Trump's stance threatened their chances of finding gainful employment, or even their future in the US.
It is now clear, in any case, that Stalin, if not in his public stance, felt threatened by any substantial relaxation and hampered by his inadequately obedient subordinates.
Again in 1840, when a crisis flared up in the Middle East and Thiers (then head of the government) took an aggressive stance that threatened to coalesce all of Europe against France, the king had found an excuse to replace his firebrand minister.
Mrs. Hasina's stance threatens more political turbulence.
Mr. Lopez believes that Father Powis's critical stance threatens those gains by undermining local morale.
The legal and public-relations team representing Jones has taken an aggressive public stance, threatening to sue if she is barred from the Olympics on any evidence short of a failed drug test.
Besides increasing support for legislation in the Senate seeking to expand American military ties with Taiwan, China's stance threatens to help unravel the administration's effort in Congress to usher it into the World Trade Organization.
