1.   All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.

2.   Between free trade and the pro-sovereignty stance of nationalists exist alternative solutions.

3.   Both poets adopt a stance of resignation in struggles with their employers.

4.   In neither ease was the omission a necessary consequence of the intellectual stance of the two schools.

5.   In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour.

6.   Now place yourself inside the regulationist framework, that is, adopt the stance of a regulationist in relation to the other two theories.

7.   The political stance of the paper means it is unlikely to report the affair in a balanced way.

8.   Their stooping posture was of a person melting down, slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.

9.   There was speculation that pragmatists within the party opposed the hard-line stance of its Swadeshi Jagran Manch lobby.

10.   He turned and seemed to take stock of her, the unwittingly defensive stance of her slim figure, and she found the experience highly disconcerting.