A top State Department official said this week: "He won the prize for de-funding the contras and taking an anti-American stance.

Iran's new anti-American stance presented the USSR with a golden opportunity to win the country over to the Soviet camp.

Created by Canadian wrestler Eric Young, the group had a mainly anti-American stance.

Many, though, are affiliated with political parties, and are fiercely partisan, with fixed pro- or anti-American stances, and some publish rumors, half-truths and outright lies.

After his parliamentary career ended, Stinson criticized the Diefenbaker government for what he felt was its anti-American stance.

He recognized the armed forces as constitutional, dropped the party's anti-American stance and agreed to maintain Japan's nuclear power plants, among other things.

Uzbekistan is drifting toward an anti-American stance, if one understands "American" as implying democracy, human rights and the struggle against state-sponsored terror.

If China takes a more aggressive and anti-American international stance, many liberals worry about harmful fallout for domestic freedoms.

An event that helped pass the constitution, radicalize the revolution and strengthen its anti-American stance, was the Iran hostage crisis.

The strong, influential political Europe of the future cannot, however, be created with an anti-American stance.