Indeed, the standing of individual gentlemen could sometimes be affected by their political stances.
Conflicting stances on many issues can readily be justified by citing compassionate impulses.
When we inspect the children's practices of creating and sustaining social contrast, we can see that various techniques are available to construct recognizably oppositional stances.
In other words, we may view code-switching as a distinct interactional resource in the sequential construction of oppositional stances.
The discourse structure typically establishes two stances or orientations to content - one relatively authoritative and historical, and the other resolutely personal and local.
The competing party-based models of popular leadership in the nineteenth century were tied to the parties' opposing stances toward the state.
Similar critical stances are found in other texts.
With those examples and their violations of personal liberties as the backdrop, conservative intellectuals benefited from grounding their policy stances in the concept of freedom.
