Sentence examples for a position closer from inspiring English sources

Rosario has long cherished a position closer to the cutting edge than the capital, and it produced Argentina's two best-known modern artists, Lucio Fontana and Antonio Berni.

And the lane was only 12 feet wide -- it is 16 feet today -- so Chamberlain could establish a position closer to the basket.

Since the Kendrick scare, Nadal has changed his groundstroke positioning from about eight feet beyond the baseline to a position closer to it.

He added that as a result of pressure from the states, the Bush administration had taken a position closer to that of the states that found merit in Google's complaint.

But polls over many years have shown that a majority of American Catholics still hold a position closer to that of Vice President Biden: They may have strong personal feelings about abortion, but they do not have the right to impose them in a nation founded on the separation of church and state.

In the intervening 20 years, large parts of the Dutch political spectrum, and much of Europe's, have evolved toward a position (closer to his) that regards respect of national law and tradition as more necessary than any further European accommodation to a growing Muslim community.

This might result either from steric hindrance due to the adjacent six-membered ring or from the positively charged guanidine group being fixed in a position close to the reaction site.

He always expressed that wonder from a position close to that occupied by the underdog.

Mr. Gaulkin took a position close to the one advocated by the Innocence Project.

The peanut flower is actually produced above ground but assumes a position close to the soil surface as it ages.

Mrs. Clinton said today that she could support merit pay awarded to entire schools rather than individual teachers, a position close to that of the union and Mr. Levy.