The most striking exception to his usual stance came last October, when he was trying to fend off conservative challengers.
They mostly greeted the end of the exit visa after 51 years with their usual stance of "we'll see".
That's when Twitter officials abandoned their usual stance and contacted NBC employees they knew through their Olympics partnership.
The most remarkable aspect of these remarks is how much of a departure they are from China's usual stance.
The tone of the mayor's remarks — at a panel on immigration organized by the Partnership for New York City and the Partnership for a New American Economy — represented a subtle departure from his usual stance on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I was standing in the usual stance of mutual disregard, pretending not to notice my neighbours sweating through skintight pyjamas and making their angry – or, I suppose, fierce – faces.
And instead of adopting its usual stance of criticizing country policies and imposing conditions, the IMF should have acted as a booster: Michel Camdessus and Larry Summers should have tried to look happy as they toured Asian capitals, and should have declared at each stop that the real economies were in excellent shape.
To a rising chorus of Latin American disapproval, Colombia in both 1996 and 1997 was "decertified" by the Americans as an ally in the war on drugs; at a cost to it, it reckons, of $800m in aid and international finance.Still, Mr Samper will step down in August, and the United States last week relaxed its usual stance of confrontation.
Floodlights on the elementary school field caught the dust as it swirled up off the diamond, and Mr. Wilner, in a white T-shirt and white socks pulled up high and tight on his calves, adopted his usual stance: he palmed the ball and side-armed it toward home.
Today, the government -- in a stark departure from its usual stance -- issued an apology and said it would not contest a May 11 district court ruling that ordered the authorities to pay $15 million to 127 plaintiffs who challenged the repressive law that kept them isolated for decades.
