1.   Analysts have suggested the increase is due to the strong stance SAS is taking against the pilots, the highest-paid group in the company.

2.   Ashcroft, a conservative, has been attacked by liberal interest groups who dislike his strong antiabortion stance and what they call his questionable civil-rights record.

3.   Brown vowed during the mayoral campaign that he would take a strong stance against sexual harassment in his administration.

4.   But the strong stance taken by his administration against the federal anti-affirmative legislation suggests that he may have no choice but to oppose the California measure as well.

5.   But they also identify with some socially conservative GOP issues, such as the strong stance against abortion.

6.   Certainly, when sexual harassment does occur, more and more companies are rightly taking a strong stance against the predator in the relationship.

7.   Current and former faculty members at the two universities said they could remember no lecturers who espoused a strong anti-science stance or similarly minded students.

8.   Despite the strong stance by the United States, the International Criminal Court will begin operations next year in The Hague, Netherlands.

9.   Forbes took a strong antiabortion stance in his campaign this year.

10.   Governments around the world since then have adopted a strong stance against terrorist acts.