11.   Thus, merely to return its policy stance to the position of last summer, the Fed needs to nudge interest rates up again.

12.   Amid the public furor over NATO bombs and U.S. allegations of aggressive Chinese spying, China is lurching toward a more confrontational stance to the United States.

13.   Athens attributed its stance to longstanding ties of friendship and a common Christian Orthodox faith shared between the Greek and Serbian people.

14.   Batista altered his wide-open stance to a more traditional one to throw off his former team.

15.   Both groups say McCain tailors his abortion stance to the audience he is addressing and is not staunchly anti-abortion.

16.   He and others like him bring an overtly activist stance to Islam unlike traditional scholars who tend to be more concerned with questions of religious law.

17.   He quietly tells Lazaro how far to hit, what stance to use, where to aim.

18.   Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov conveyed this stance to the U.N. and NATO leadership and foreign ministers of leading Western countries.

19.   Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat left Jerusalem to report the Israeli stance to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

20.   While working to maintain the arms embargo at home, the administration sought to project a tough stance to the Bosnian Serbs as well.