21.   In Mauritania in west Africa, police broke up student demonstrations against the U.S. and British strikes, but the government itself took no public stance.

22.   Kraft acknowledged that he feels much the same way despite his strong public stance that certain players with a criminal background be banned from the NFL.

23.   Riggleman had maintained an upbeat public stance despite the losing streak.

24.   The public stance of needing a basketball operations chief is flimsy.

25.   The public stance is supposed to be macho.

26.   The space agency itself has changed its public stance on the dangers posed by a flight slowdown.

27.   The winds of disaffection reached Ms. Norton quickly, and she almost instantly changed her public stance.

28.   There are also indications that Ms. Messinger is understandably skittish about taking a position that might conflict with her previous public stances.

29.   What remains uncertain is why the Pentagon took a public stance clearly at odds with the classified information it had collected in Haiti.