1.  This straddle-leg stance is the basic defensive position.

2.  Back to the future the Miami Heat go, building and rebuilding their most basic position from the ground up.

3.  Both sides had their turns, assuming it is reasonable to limit the debate to only two basic positions.

4.  Dole endorses the basic GOP position that a balanced budget and business-oriented tax cuts are a better way to raise wages and stimulate economic growth.

5.  Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng said Monday that China had not changed its basic negotiating position.

6.  Gradually McCain came to concentrate on whatever the crowd wanted to talk about and assumed the voters knew his basic positions.

7.  Some senior Palestinian officials said they were concerned about what they termed troubling signs that there was little substantive difference in the basic positions held by Barak and Netanyahu.

8.  The basic position of the Bush administration, worked out after an intensive review, is that an accord that focuses on missiles is no longer sufficient.

9.  These and other basic Israeli positions were outlined on Wednesday by a senior Israeli military intelligence officer.

10.  As he arrived at his luxury lakeside hotel ahead of the evening talks, Hashimoto told reporters Japan did not intend moving from its basic position.