(1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(2) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(6) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(7) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(8) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(9) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(10) Loads up to 2.5 kN were applied, without simulated muscle forces, to mimic the line-of-action of the resultant joint-force in a single-legged stance.
(11) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(12) This paper describes a system for the quantitative analysis of posture and stance in the freely standing quadruped.
(13) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(14) A spokesman for the Liberal Democratic party senator, David Leyonhjelm, said he would read Heydon’s decision before determining his stance.
(15) Even more striking is the stance being adopted by Hagan and her Democratic supporters, who have been as keen to discuss social issues as the Republicans have been to avoid them.
(16) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(17) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(18) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(19) They are hoping that in a constituency that voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, Goldsmith’s hard-Brexit stance will count against him.
(20) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
Stanza
Definition:
(n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
(n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
(2) During the opening stanza any threat Steve Clarke's team carried came from aiming direct balls in on Costel Pantilimon's goal.
(3) Manchester United beat Club America in pre-season clash Read more That was about it for the opening stanza, though Luke Shaw made one dashing run at the Earthquakes before the referee, Juan Guzman, blew for the break.
(4) A left staggered Frampton at the start of the final stanza but he held his ground.
(5) In his final years, however, reduced to typing with the thumb of his blasted left hand, Comfort returned to stanza, metre, rhyme.
(6) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
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(8) Consider the opening stanza: "Put your flags up in the sky And then wave 'em side to side Show the world where you're from Show the world we are one."
(9) The big plus was the lead United held when the club’s second side of the night took their place for the second stanza.
(10) The minute you hear Christopher Walken intoning the opening stanzas of Burnt Norton – one of TS Eliot's own late quartets – you sense that A Late Quartet plans to mine every last meaning from the words in its title.
(11) Both inflections found in this study reflect an increased rate of pituitary growth in relation to the growth rate of body length in the subsequent stanzas.
(12) In the opening stanza this worked fine as United headed to the break 3-0 up.
(13) The closing stanza was a dangerous dance, Nevin wanting to lead, Campbell wanting to go home.
(14) In a video at Regen Projects, Sweet Land of Liberty, the stanzas of the American patriotic anthem My Country ’Tis of Thee disintegrate in Gates’s singing of them, into the soft, fine romantic dream fragments of “we land of liberty”, “from every mountainside”, and “let freedom ring”.
(15) The first three stanzas are worth quoting: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP.
(16) Trailing 10-7 at half-time the Chargers scored 20 unanswered points in the second stanza to win NFL playoff on Sunday and advance to the divisional round against the Denver Broncos.
(17) Van Gaal’s second stanza XI were no better than the first.
(18) The punches that felled him were heavy and arrived unseen – a left hook behind the ear in the third round, a glancing right that relieved his unsteady legs of their power at the start of the fourth then another arcing hook from the left that thumped the top of his head to finish it 32sec from the end of a fierce, thrilling stanza.
(19) During the first developmental stanza when the digestive tract was differentiating and the larvae were dependent on endogenous nutritional reserves, digestive enzyme concentrations were low.
(20) This isn’t about creating a deeper democracy, but deeper markets – and the two are increasingly incompatible We could quote a thousand other such stanzas of euro-poetry, but that single line from Lafontaine shows how far the single-currency project has fallen.