Sentence examples for weaker stance from inspiring English sources

She actively campaigned on her conservative view of marriage, attacking Mary Whiteford, her opponent in the Republican primary last year, for what Gamrat characterized as Whiteford's weaker stance on traditional marriage.

However, pluralists take a much weaker stance.

I think it was kind of a weak stance, personally, but, you know, maybe he needed the money".

Notice that Obama won Ohio, a state which Kerry lost in 2004 owing to his weak stance on gay marriage.

They can earn more money farming strawberries, he said, noting that despite the Japanese government's comparatively weak stance against smoking, tobacco consumption is falling.

Ethnic Pushtuns, who have borne the brunt of extremist violence, appear to be put off by what they see as his weak stance against militants, the poll found.

Since then, he has shrugged off Google and Yahoo, as well as criticism about a supposedly weak stance on censorship and copyright piracy, to make Baidu the dominant force in the Chinese search engine market.

And in America Barack Obama has summoned up the will to condemn violence and oppression, but, until far too late, studiously avoided summoning up the means to do much about it a weak stance for a superpower (see Lexington).Those who wish America to be a force for good will find that disappointing.

Having been a superpower for a long time, America cannot afford to assume a weak stance.

Davis' weak stance on slavery began to cause a decrease in his popularity as abolitionist sentiment in the state gained ground during the 1840s.

But Renita remains positive that as long as Indonesia's minority sects can manage to band together in the face of hardline intimidation, they can withstand growing intolerance and the government's weak stance.