Businesses should not actually be publicly taking a stance on that, regardless of their internal policies.

And the front office publicly took the position that Darryl would grow up one of these days.

I would shy away from publicly taking a position on that in the books.

"And there were people who publicly took themselves out of the running whom we never considered."

No one publicly took responsibility for the attack.

He has also swallowed budget cuts without publicly taking on the Mayor who gave him his job.

That battle is one reason for him to warm to the teachers' union, which could stir trouble by publicly taking the principals' side.

This incensed the Chaakiaar so much that he publicly took him to task.

The manager will publicly take the blame, while the department works on solving the problem.

That is the position we have been taking publicly and privately in the talks with our Russian partners.