1.   LIKE Hartlepool, Redcar seems to be the butt of sarcasm and unjustified put-downs, and your reporter adopts the same jaundiced stance.

2.   Baseball quickly found itself taking the same stance.

3.   Educators have traditionally taken the same stance.

4.   I used to think how convenient it would be to adopt the same stance.

5.   If the court finds federal intrusion acceptable in this case, we can expect it will adopt the same stance in regard to the Internet.

6.   Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general for antitrust, seemed to have the same stance.

7.   Klock said there was nothing untoward about this cooperation, calling it a common practice for litigants who share the same basic legal stance in a case.

8.   Other health care providers took much the same stance, saying that the ruling would prompt a review of their current policies.

9.   Raiders president Al Davis always abstains, and Arizona Cardinals president Bill Bidwill has adopted the same stance in recent years.

10.   Richard Petty, Adam said, has taken the same stance.