1.  Fujimori requested the face-to-face meeting with Hashimoto, Japanese officials said, to try to ensure that the two countries take a united stand.

2.  So far, the commission has turned a deaf ear and the WMO has managed to persuade its members to take a united stand.

3.  The labor movement, which once took a united stand on asbestos litigation, is split over the futures deals.

4.  The peace process has come this far in large part because of the united stand by the British and Irish governments.

5.  They rallied to make a united stand.

6.  Yet the lack of a united stand by the caucus has made it easier for the opposition to make inroads against the act.

7.  Past calls for nationwide labor actions have not produced the united stand that leaders have sought.

8.  Arab leaders began arriving Thursday for a summit they hope will overcome inter-Arab disputes and forge a united stand on peace with Israel.

9.  Aware that Orthodoxy is far less visible in American life than Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, the bishops agreed they need to take united public stands on moral issues.

10.  British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, at the monthly meeting in Brussels of European Union foreign ministers, urged a united stand against Iraq.