1.   A number of District Courts took the position on that issue that first resort should still be had to the Convention.

2.   A police team, forewarned of the raid, had taken up positions inside the bank.

3.   As it was, those legislators owed black voters nothing and were therefore free to take positions openly hostile to them.

4.   Forget all those tales of our taking our position at dawn and staying there hardly daring to move.

5.   However, the measure specifically did not take a position on the morality of the death penalty.

6.   Peres wrote to Shamir that he had never asked them to take a position in the first place.

7.   Politicians have rushed to take up positions on one side of the barricades or the other.

8.   She takes the position that all asylum seekers should be made welcome.

9.   The central position was taken by the headmaster himself, and the live coals sent vivid warmth to his posterior.

10.   The city attorney rarely takes a position on the legality of proposed ballot measures before they qualify.