1.  A common closed position is sitting with your arms and legs crossed and your hand covering your mouth or chin.

2.  The most common position for this is on the last lexical word of the tone-unit.

3.  Both the Dorgan and Wyden bills would continue the moratorium for four or five years while the states refine their common position.

4.  French Finance Minister Jean Arthuis told journalists later that France and Germany would reach a common position on the selection of members by the time the Madrid summit starts.

5.  On the major issues, the three candidates hold common positions.

6.  One of the main obstacles appears to be that the White House and congressional Democrats have not yet worked out common positions on many points.

7.  Republicans were dreading the meeting, especially since they had not worked out a common position among themselves.

8.  The bargaining could turn into a long debate if the Security Council is to reach a common position.

9.  The prescriptions for what ails Argentina, however, seem to differ from one assembly to the next, making it difficult for the movement to articulate common positions.

10.  Their outsiderliness is less significant to Judt than the common positions they adopted from different directions.