11.  Dole and Gramm, of Texas, both tried to best the other in opposing Foster and wooing conservative Christians with their tough stands against abortion.

12.  Even before the speech, the Bush administration had taken a particularly tough stand toward Pyongyang.

13.  Eisner has maintained privately that he took such a tough stand because he believed Disney had no obligation to pay what Katzenberg was demanding.

14.  Flynn and his boss, District Attorney Frank Daniels, said they take a tough stand against those who peddle the poison.

15.  GM said its tough stand simply points to the value it places on intellectual property.

16.  He has taken a tough stand against gun control and welfare for unwed mothers.

17.  He said the administration probably will take a tough stand against the IRA.

18.  He stresses his tough stand against illegal immigration and his opposition to affirmative action programs and welfare handouts.

19.  His anti-Arab rhetoric and tough stands embarrassed the United States before Arab allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and made the administration appear ineffective in the important Middle East.

20.  If he does the latter, he looks like the weak old Clinton, unable to take a tough stand.