The phrase "a position to cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or authority to create a certain effect or outcome in a situation.
Example: "As the project manager, I am in a position to cause significant changes in the team's workflow."
Alternatives: "able to create" or "in a role to effect".
At some point they may be in a position to cause trouble.
But do so in a way that the legislative branch is not in a position to cause any trouble.
They are now in a position to cause problems for the Democrats and mainstream Republicans, who they regard as having betrayed conservatism.
In other words, had the attack been real, the terrorists would have been in a position to cause potentially catastrophic damage.
People have legitimate affairs – but this is not the same as an unwanted advance from a person who is in a position to cause you grief.
Union activists have scheduled a meeting for 7 January at which further strike action could be on the agenda, with the PCS in a position to cause some disruption through its membership among UK Border Agency employees.
But the insider-hacker-with-an-axe-to-grind could be in a unique position to cause trouble for the President.
Indeed, the placenta is in a critical position to cause or modify such challenges by altering nutritional transport functions or the pattern and nature of endocrine signals impacting the fetus.
To this day, Peter Wallenberg contends that Investor bought the shares at Mr. Gyllenhammar's request, "to give him some stockholder protection," but it amassed a large-enough position to cause discomfort in the Volvo camp.
Dr. Bone then explained that Dr. Bierenbaum asked him to speak to his wife because, "It doesn't help him if he's in a position to do anything that causes harm to his wife".
And his successor, Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, protégé of the Senate's leading segregationist Richard Russell of Georgia, was in a position to make, or break, the cause of reform.
