31.  The National Rifle Association lobbied heavily in support of the Republican position.

32.  The president embraced the Republican position that the federal government should stop ordering states to enact costly new programs without paying for them.

33.  The report also repeated the Republican position that the White House, in its own management review, had covered up the true nature of the dismissals.

34.  The Republican position was backed by the National Rifle Association and several industry groups, including the National Mining Association and the Institute for the Makers of Explosives.

35.  They started out by taking all the most popular Republican positions and claiming them as their own.

36.  This reflects the Republican position that Medicare spending must be reined in, for the good of the program and its beneficiaries.

37.  This was a telling juxtaposition, for it was Powell who got the moderate Republican position on abortion out on the table and gave it new and stronger currency.

38.  Thompson spent last week expounding on Republican positions in a series of network interviews during the GOP convention.

39.  Traficant had already become a pariah to his party, siding in recent months with Republican positions as he complained the government was persecuting him.

40.  White House aides can scarcely contain their glee over how weak they believe the Republican position is on tax cuts.