Why do you have to take this extreme position on abortion?

One town official, who asked not to be identified, said, "While there is some justification to what the group says, they've taken an extreme position."

"To keep art alive it needs people taking extreme positions," he said.

"During budget negotiations, it is very typical for an agency to take such an extreme position," she said.

This was seen as an extreme position by the medieval Church.

This is why extreme positions always jump out at me as "almost certainly wrong."

They've started their negotiations from a rather extreme position, wouldn't you say?

It seems to be an ill-thought-out and rather extreme position.

Can we not therefore build on that position rather than try to take extreme positions in this particular debate?

Give up some of our extreme positions, move toward a meeting in the middle.