The point is not to stake out different positions but to own the popular issue.
Each player tries to stake out territory and surround his opponent.
It's wise to stake out each freed prisoner for a few months after he gets out of prison.
Let me stake out more precisely the narrow path that would allow Europe to pass through this minefield.
And I'm still hungry — I think there's a piece left in the kitchen. I'll stake out a claim for it, if you guys don't mind.
Even when the greatest foreign policy issue of the age - the Iraq war - loomed, he found a way to stake out a left of centre position that might not alienate the right.
Males might stake out 500 square miles or more, Mr. Inman said, sharing the landscape with two or three females that breed every other year and usually produce a litter of two.
