1.   Antismoking groups said American negotiators had advocated tougher stands than anticipated.

2.   Asked how he differs from Gore on major issues, Bradley said he has taken a tougher stand on gun control.

3.   Blair has come under pressure from his own Labor Party to take a tougher stand against Israeli incursions into the West Bank.

4.   A senior American official said Washington hoped that the defense ministers would endorse a tougher stand.

5.   Cuban President Fidel Castro took a tougher stand.

6.   Gramm has won over some activist GOP members with his tougher antiabortion stand.

7.   It was a tougher public stand than he had taken before.

8.   It has been far more conciliatory than the American or Peruvian governments, which seem to favor a tougher stand on principle against terrorism.

9.   On the other hand, a tougher stand could also draw attention to strikes that have generated little opposition at home and abroad.

10.   Several reviewers complained that their entreaties that the Embassy take a tougher stand against fraud and baseless claims of persecution were ignored.