31.  The call, by the Electronic Industries Association of Japan, is the first time the group has taken a public stand against the semiconductor trade agreement.

32.  The outpouring was all the more striking because Bush has yet to stake out public stands on pressing matters that his rivals are already debating.

33.  The view from the public stand at the attack site takes in a huge pit, acres of blacktop and a temporary roadway, but virtually nothing above ground.

34.  U.S. diplomats were left frustrated at the unwillingness of many countries to take tough public stands on human rights even with the end of cold war divisions.

35.  TSTA and TFT are activist groups that often take a public stand on political issues.

36.  Yes, I am gratified that the regents have at long last taken a principled public stand.

37.  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.

38.  But France, which maintained close ties to Baghdad before the Gulf War, appeared to toughen its public stand against Iraq.

39.  But Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has been taking the public stand of mediator, in attempts to get economic sanctions on his country lifted.

40.  Chinese diplomats at the United Nations rarely take such a strong public stand on international issues.