Example sentences of "from a position " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 2 | A Japanese on the board will probably be a business school graduate with extensive overseas experience , who will speak from a position of strength . |
| 3 | Great poets speak from a position of morality , of authority and that 's the one thing these people ca n't abide . |
| 4 | Keynes , therefore , subscribed to Liberalism as the best available option , but from a position of inner detachment . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that the ‘ whole man ’ Lewis moved from a position of atheism in his undergraduate years to an acceptance in the early 1930s of ‘ mere Christianity ’ . |
| 6 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 7 | The change in the outlook for Hongkong following last June 's massacre in Tiananmen Square demands that Hongkong Bank be able to negotiate with a future Chinese government from a position of strength . |
| 8 | We have often heard our prime Minister say : ‘ We must negotiate from a position of strength . ’ |
| 9 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 10 | They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith . |
| 11 | Emile Ollivier , who was to move from a position of intelligent opposition to that of head of the last real ministry of the Empire , describes the apartments thus : |
| 12 | It is clear from L'ère du soupçon that Sarraute is arguing from a position which considers psychological realism of the traditional kind as a falsification of mental experience . |
| 13 | All of us face racism and sexism in our explorations , and the wonderful articles and portfolios in Passion signpost a continuum of experiences , our litany of survival , which has created the situation where we can , like the Blackwomen 's Creativity Project , network internationally from a position of equality not imperialism . |
| 14 | Shifting from a position of criticism of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , public opinion has swung to the other extreme , of hero worship of Saddam Hussein , not so long ago viewed as an ally of India rather than of Pakistan . |
| 15 | Quite imperceptibly , arrest has moved from a position at the end of the investigative process to a new niche right at the start . |
| 16 | The idea was to demonstrate the solidarity of the NATO alliance with a view to ensuring that negotiations with the Eastern bloc would be from a position of strength . |
| 17 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |
| 18 | An advanced manoeuvre used in stronger winds in which the sailor lets the sail pull him on to the board from a position in the water . |
| 19 | To summarise the arguments , the critical proposition is that European companies , particularly technology-intensive ones , start from a position of disadvantage , where they have initially diversified rather broadly as multi-divisional companies and in the context of one single country . |
| 20 | Thus we may have a close-up of a character weeping , viewed from a position in which , if the viewer were actually there , he would be coshed for intrusion of privacy . |
| 21 | Britain 's experience with chemical weapons shows what can happen if we fail to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 22 | Much that is read offers the opportunity to witness a range of emotions from a position of safety . |
| 23 | It is a sad fact of life that very few writers are capable of producing books that are both written from a position of commitment and are successful pieces of writing . |
| 24 | In Parliament , he was one of the young Conservative MPs who welcomed , from a position of strength as they thought , the accession of Labour into British political life , and set about educating it in the arts of responsible participation in the polity . |
| 25 | From a position of majority support , those campaigns can start to progress their causes by embarrassing politicians into action . |
| 26 | ‘ Our first talk turned her round from a position of despair to a position of strength and attack . ’ |
| 27 | The camcorder can then be operated from a position looking diagonally away from the window to face the subjects . |
| 28 | Set it , not frontally , but at an angle onto the subject from a position alongside the camera , and aim it downwards at about forty-five degrees to the horizontal . |
| 29 | Negotiating advantageously with another firm from a position of weakness is not easy . |
| 30 | From a position , parked a few yards down the road from the Stones ' house , Bodie watched as Anne Hanvey finally delivered Nick to the house . |