Synonym: position, posture. Similar words: distance, instance, substance, for instance, assistance, resistance, circumstance, in the distance. Meaning: [stæns /stɑːns] n. 1. standing posture 2. a rationalized mental attitude.
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31. They put pressure on the Government to change its intransigent stance.
32. The United States has taken a lot of criticism for its hard-line stance.
33. The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
34. The victims of their aggressive stance are their children.
34. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
35. Two anecdotes about Cato illustrate his stance.
36. This straddle-leg stance is the basic defensive position.
37. He raised his bazooka and took his stance.
38. Deng closely aligned himself with this stance.
39. Reversing his previous stance, he backed a balanced budget.
40. Critics of that stance say anything less than full disclosure is often misleading and sometimes dangerous.
41. His reasoned and reasonable tone had contrasted strongly with the confrontational stance of his colleagues.
42. Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end, iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.
43. But it was her vocal anti-meat stance that turned the country establishment's down-home snub into redneck outrage.
44. His eyes had immediately darkened, and his entire body had taken on an aggressive stance.
45. Between free trade and the pro-sovereignty stance of nationalists exist alternative solutions.
46. In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.
47. Both poets adopt a stance of resignation in struggles with their employers.
48. Begin from the opposite stance and advance into the opponent.
49. Their stooping posture was of a person melting down(sentencedict.com), slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.
50. Without even bothering to change from his ultra closed stance, Locke produced a brace of exquisitely faded woods.
51. Similarly, the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle.
52. He was both eager to adopt the right stance and unnerved by the strangeness of it.
53. Their punkish stance is probably a put-on: doubtless their dads are commodities brokers.
54. Sudden and abrupt changes in stance and orientation are off-putting for the opponent so work out some routines to achieve this.
55. A federal trial judge in New York adopted that stance in this case.
56. But Schro der's leftwing government adopted a less rigid stance on foreign currency.
57. Repeat the exercise but kick with the front or rear leg as soon as the stance switches.
58. And I have an uneasy feeling that this stance is becoming a handicap in the modern world, like not being computer-literate.
59. In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour.
60. Later sections will cast further and more consequential doubt on the adequacy of the inductivist stance on observation.
More similar words: distance, instance, substance, for instance, assistance, resistance, circumstance, in the distance, pittance, acceptance, of importance, stand, stand out, stand up, stand for, stand by, standard, distant, instant, cancer, cancel, constant, stand up for, stand up to, chance, glance, dancer, understand, music stand, instantly.