Example sentences for: stance

How can you use “stance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In its editorial advocating that the DOJ and FBI abandon their current policy against the use of computer encryption technology the feds are not at least indirectly privy to, the NYT explains President Clinton's failure to oppose this law enforcement stance thusly: "[S]ince Attorney General Janet Reno has protected Mr. Clinton from an independent counsel on campaign finance, the White House is said to be loath to oppose either her or Louis Freeh, the F.B.I.

  • Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."

  • Which ones are willing to say that taking an anti-crime stance means finding a way to either stamp out these groups or isolate them so completely that they can't try to kill more innocent people?

  • From the start, said Le Monde , Blair has taken a stance in favor of military action against Iraq without consulting his European partners, while at the same time proposing himself as a candidate for the future leadership of Europe.

  • This is tax cuts, so help me God"; and 2) Bush and John McCain arguing about campaign-finance reform, with McCain defending the compatibility of his reform stance with his recently exposed letter writing to the FCC to force a decision concerning a TV station that one of his major contributors wanted to purchase, and Bush claiming that McCain's reform would "hurt the Republican cause."


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