"Shouldn't the department take an aggressive position in finding out what happened?"

He represents the most aggressive position on the other side."

His aggressive positions can only create more divisions in our country."

Many mutual funds, meanwhile, have eased off from more aggressive positions.

"Countries who have historically never moved in anything but the most friendly fashion will be taking more aggressive positions," he said.

But some tax professionals take very aggressive positions, at least partly on the ground that this is what their clients want.

I am taking an aggressive position because this is the time to nurture our vitality for the 21st century."

But that is the aggressive position he needs to take when fighting through screens to chase shooters.

After twenty years of left-wing Catholic-bashing, this was a rather aggressive position to take.

"We are taking a very aggressive position with the Prolinea E line."

"Serb tanks are in a very, very aggressive position," one American official said.

The worst response is to take a highly aggressive position with a conservative trading desk, or vice versa.

In its latest annual report, Mylan said that it had taken "a very aggressive position and raised prices" on many products.

Known as "slotting", this technique trades the risk of a hit for the opportunity to develop an aggressive position.

The plan loosened restrictions on some banks, allowing them to take more aggressive positions in foreign exchange trading.

Markey has staked out a more aggressive position by announcing that Republicans who tell the truth are breaking the law.

He's going to take an aggressive position against a world where Google and Yahoo will dominate."

"This budget incorporates for the first time an aggressive position on getting revenues rather than relying on income taxes," he said.

So they are taking aggressive positions."

"Walsh Greenwood took an aggressive position with the company," Mr. Sherman said.

"It's a pretty aggressive position, but it's defensible," said Professor Merges.

Mr. Sharon, in his long military and political career, has staked out risky, aggressive positions; the 1982 invasion of Lebanon is one example.

"We were a little early," Mr. Baldiswieler said, adding that the mid- and small-cap growth portfolios take very aggressive positions.

But then Gaga's had the advantage of thirty years of Madonna's groundwork, so of course she can start from a more aggressive position.

A sharply increased penalty for "substantial understatement" of tax could face those taxpayers who take highly aggressive positions in calculating their tax liability.