1.   For many years teachers had occupied a somewhat ambiguous position.

2.   The Labour Party remained in an ambiguous position.

3.   But the White House has taken a much more ambiguous position.

4.   Only Dole has expressed an ambiguous position.

5.   On the other hand, there is a more ambiguous position characterized by qualifications and confusion, offering, perhaps, at least one loud cheer for the lie.

6.   Women occupy an ambiguous position in Germany.

7.   Young college-educated nannies occupy a socially ambiguous position, neither Upstairs nor Downstairs.

8.   Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, taken to a U.N. cell block in The Hague Monday night amid tight security, are in an ambiguous position.

9.   In the face of mounting criticism, the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party has stuck to its ambiguous position on punishment beatings and killings.