11.  Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder took a similar stand after meeting with U.S. and Finnish envoys working on the Kosovo crisis.

12.  However, the fourth-ranking official of the GOP House leadership refused Tuesday to criticize Republican presidential candidates for declining to take a similar stand.

13.  Seoul is expected to ask Washington and Tokyo to take a similar stand when the three nations meet in Hawaii later this month.

14.  The administration has been criticized domestically and internationally for similar stands on climate change and small arms trade.

15.  The administration, however, has been criticized domestically and internationally for similar stands on climate change and small arms trade.

16.  The Clinton administration has consistently opposed ending the embargo, and all major presidential candidates have taken similar stands.

17.  When asked, all the parties interviewed showed a curiously similar stand on what needs to be done.

18.  Blair and Major have taken generally similar stands on Northern Ireland, particularly the IRA, which broke a long ceasefire with a bombing campaign in February last year.

19.  China has taken a similar hardline stand on other UN missions to countries with links to Taiwan, notably delaying the authorization of a force for Haiti.

20.  The two countries have also adopted a similar stand on the Caspian sea which they want to be accorded a special status.