"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Butler's adamant stand against returning "black contrabands" to their rightful owners thrust the slave issue to the forefront again.
- This attitude was surprising because the substitution of one addiction by another contradicted the previously adamant stand by Nixon's adherents against any drug use.
- Complicating the matter is Mr. Reagan's adamant stand against new taxes, except for the subterfuges he has himself proposed.
- Brazil is coming under increasing pressure from its commercial bankers and American and other officials to take a less adamant stand in crucial debt talks.
- It would certainly explain a lot, if true: her hypersensitivity about Brion's powers, her adamant stand against you, outwardly based on religious fervor.... Do you suppose she realizes?
- We decided it was not for us, a small nation, to take an adamant stand.
- It was the Saudis' adamant stand against cutbacks that blocked OPEC from reaching an agreement.
- His adamant stand on the territory became an obstacle to extending the 1979 peace treaty.
- Market participants seemed to interpret the comments as a softening of President Bush's adamant stand against tax increases.
- Only Brun's adamant stand in the face of increasing opposition kept the issue undecided, and he wasn't at all sure he would win out in the end.
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