1.  In advance of all that, the NBA could not afford to have one of its franchises take a weak stand against violent insurrection.

2.  Kim also is accused of taking a weak stand toward North Korea.

3.  Since then, critics have accused Koizumi of watering down his economic reform agenda and taking a weak stand on corruption scandals in his Liberal Democratic Party.

4.  They also accused the government of taking too weak a stand in a territorial dispute with Japan over a group of small, uninhabited islands.

5.  They denounced the Seoul government as taking too weak a stand against the United States.

6.  They denounced the Seoul government for taking too weak a stand against the United States.