Converse of object

• adopt: Ask the same person to then adopt an assertive stance.

• take: We need to take a tough stance on all legal wrongs.

• negotiate: You will be respected for tenacity and professionalism in your negotiating stance.

• assume: By assuming a low stance the vertical doors are reduced from three to two.

Preposition: on

• abortion: His stance on abortion is an attack on the fundamental right of women to control their own bodies.

• immigration: JL: Err, well we're best known for our strong stance on immigration.

Adjective modifier

• anti-war: You people take the anti-war stance to rediculous extremes.

• proactive: CLP will continue to take a proactive stance in pressing the case for investment in infrastructure.

• neutral: Rather than taking a neutral stance, Thames Valley Police have come down firmly on the side of the university.

• aggressive: Despite the aggressive stance, someone in ergonomics has really done their homework.

• intentional: He argues that to give an intentional explanation of a system's behavior is merely to adopt the " intentional stance " toward it.

• principled: The tribunal has now unanimously backed the principled stance taken by the 120 employees and the CWU.

Modifies a noun

• vis-�-vis: Ray Billington, despite his stance vis-à-vis God as an objective reality, offers an optimistic glimpse of the future of religion.

• phase: Pressure across a dog's paw during stance phase.

Noun used with modifier

• hardline: Mr Blair yesterday faced down rebellious Labor MPs with a passionate defense of his hardline stance on Iraq.

• circum-: Particularly under the present circum- stances, weapons causing casualties on a large scale and mass destruction have appeared in use.

• pro-gm: Many scientists do not share their pro-GM stance, and molecular geneticists are but a minute minority of all scientists.

• belay: So after our guide regained the safety of our belay stance he decided that going back down would be a good idea.

• anti-imperialist: However, these nationalist and secular parties failed to take an anti-imperialist stance.

• campaigning: ISIS takes neither a corporate view nor a campaigning stance.