Way one positions one's legs

Usage examples of stance.

The Baath socialist regime, however, with its secular, anticlerical stance, was never comfortable with Shia religious leaders and their followers.

No matter how many times she plead her case Nick would never trust her, Bree realized hollowly now as she stared at his uncompromising stance.

Not only is modernity not devoid of the Goddess, her Goodness and Agape and Compassion are written all over it, with its radically new and emergent stance of worldcentric pluralism, universal benevolence, and multicultural tolerance, something that no horticultural society could even conceive, let alone implement.

The branches and limbs of coral seemed rigid only because each microform who darted away left chemical energy behind which only microforms who took up that exact position in the hierarchy, the same place and stance and posture, could fully enjoy.

She wore no face paint, made no gesture, and took no preening or beckoning stance, Mirt looked at her again, meeting her eyes squarely.

Even under the highly doubtful assumption that Spender was telling the truth when he would later claim not to have known that he was being paid by the CIA, we would still be left with the question of why the CIA was willing to pay him in spite of the neutralist stance he took in The God That Failed and elsewhere.

Hanes gave me a piece of paper, then reassumed his stance at the bathtub.

Winch and Hawley Bardwell assumed the stance he had been drilled in and then redrilled in, and redrilled in.

Shel walked slowly around the room, and then Shel took a parade-rest stance near the hall door while Uri moved behind Brennen.

I had switched back from a southpaw stance and he was no match for me as a boxer, provided I stayed in the centre of the ring and off the ropes.

The two Germans were alert, their eyes and stance hardly altered by his supplicatory tone.

Jing relaxed into a more courteous posture, but still tenser than his usual stance among friends.

Cordelia confronted Giles, assuming a wide stance with the tranq gun resting on her shoulder.

The droidekas were even more impressive, rolling forward out of their crates and unfolding into their tripedal battle stances.

More astounding, he found her unfeminine attire and confident stance as seductive as every enticing curve.