1.  In the present educational climate in the UK this involves an important political stand, opening up problems of language awareness, discourse, text, and tradition.

2.  And taking political stands, as the national organization has done for generations.

3.  A former governor, he is popular in his home state of Nebraska, a conservative GOP bastion, as much for his mystique as for his political stands.

4.  But her refusal to take a political stand either through her name or writing vexes many.

5.  But to foster the healing process, it has shied away from taking a firm political stand vis-a-vis the Palestinians.

6.  By its very existence, rai takes a political stand.

7.  Clinton can hardly be imagined taking such a sacrificial political stand for principle.

8.  For all his unwillingness to take overt political stands, he did refuse to hold a crusade in South Africa until the meetings could be held without racial segregation.

9.  He said he was willing to take a political stand if necessary and acknowledged that he might become an exile from the United States as a consequence.

10.  Instead, they issued a letter slamming the president for a number of his political stands.