21.   Her previously critical stance toward United States policy in Latin America gave her a clear sense of herself as other.

22.   His recent effort to woo nationalists by assuming a more strident stance toward America and the West has so far failed to restore his political fortunes at home.

23.   His protective stance toward ethanol is one of the few positions on which he and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, a midwesterner, agree.

24.   In the past few years, she has taken a more combative stance toward the city than Hill.

25.   In the past, rail unions such as the BLE have taken a more antagonistic stance toward the federal government.

26.   In the past, Mexican leaders, wedded to nationalist ideology, often took a folded-arms stance toward the United States.

27.   It also came after former President Bush urged his son to adopt a more moderate stance toward North Korea, citing a memo by an expert in Asian affairs.

28.   Leadership crises are solved not just by new leaders but also by new policies and a fresh, open, and generous stance toward the past.

29.   Notably absent were his usual critical references to fellow Arab nations deemed wea in their stance toward Israel and the United States.

30.   One of those conservatives is Alvaro Uribe, a presidential candidate whose popularity has surged in recent months because of his hard-line stance toward the rebels.