21.   By taking the stance they did, Gourdine was asked, were the players repudiating their leadership?

22.   Cities who are heading the legal assault against gun makers have taken different stances on outside lawyers.

23.   Classrooms resumed their business after injections were finished, and at least one teacher took the stance that the less mention of shots and bad berries, the better.

24.   Cook proved himself to be a shrewd marketer who was not afraid to take controversial stances.

25.   Cruz says his organization is nonpartisan and normally does not take stances on candidates or initiatives.

26.   Different federal appeals courts have taken different stances, in an apparent conflict between federal labor and worker-benefit laws.

27.   Federal appeals courts had taken different stances on the issue, which is at the center of fights over proposed tribal gambling operations in several states.

28.   Federal appeals courts had taken different stances on how to interpret the gaming law.

29.   For instance, the clothes for the last cold-weather season of this century are taking a stance of pre-millenial preparedness.

30.   --Fox takes the stance that it heard talk about the racially slanted comment, but it has not been able to confirm it.