She had not been able to come to terms with her 'public position'.

I'd like to take a public position, on your side.

The public position of the Bush camp is that all this will work itself out in the end.

We're going to force everyone to take a public position on this, Fred.

They were all men of public position, for which reason their names will not be given here.

This is a man who has had to take very few public positions.

He said that the national office had taken no public position on the tax issue.

The Bush administration has not taken a public position on the bill.

In addition, some of its members have very public positions.

"They were people who had basically taken a public position."