firm stance
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- noun
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posición firme
- She took a firm stance against bullying, ensuring that every student felt safe at school.
- take a firm stance
But YouTube wants us to take a really hard stance, a very firm stance, in fact, so firm that they say, is your channel intended for children or is it not?
- But YouTube wants us to take a really hard stance, a very firm stance, in fact, so firm that they say, is your channel intended for children or is it not?
- I'll, I'll never claim that last call has has a firm stance on this is the way it is and this is the way that it happens.
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When you are less knowledgeable about an issue area, you are less comfortable, and therefore less willing to commit to a firm stance.
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When the threat is perceived to be high, the dominant European worry is that of U.S. abandonment, but this concern will be eased if the United States shares this perception and takes a firm stance.
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Obama maintains a firm stance on the top 2 percent paying more in taxes.
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The Chief of Police in Anchorage has taken a firm stance on rape.
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken a firm stance against the strike.
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The Chinese denounced Vance's firm stance that the United States would maintain economic and cultural relations and continue to sell defensive weapons to Taiwan.
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I agree that there are many people for whom "niceness" isn't going to work; in such cases, it would be best to just take a firm stance, strongly reprimand them, and explain in excruciating detail why exactly they are wrong.
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He was responsible for the creation of the BOA Athletes' Commission and fought strongly to continually reinforce the organisation's firm stance with regard to anti-doping.
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After the war ended, there was almost no exchange of communications between Japan and Iraq on their bilateral relationship, and Japan maintained a firm stance that it could not resume official talks until Iraq complied with relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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This firm stance, with an elaborate and symbolic utterance of veto, echoing Thatcher's handbag rhetoric, seems to combine domestic rhetoric with an aggressive demand for the repatriation of certain powers.
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Synonyms
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A view or opinion someone has about an issue
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A firm position that accepts no compromise in politics or talks
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Being steady and determined in words and actions
Antonyms
How Aggressive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an unwavering and strong position' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'firm' (resolute/strong) with 'stance' (position or viewpoint); 'firm' simply modifies the strength of the stance. This is a literal, compositional pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
The phrase firm stance comes from the image of a person standing with their feet planted and not moving, with firm meaning strong and stance meaning how you stand. That picture shows why it means 'a strong opinion that does not change' or 'refusing to change one's mind'.