The ensuing scramble for positions in UMNO has done little to change a widespread view that the party has been in power too long.
President Hamid Karzai has said he intends to run for a second five-year term but there is a widespread sense that his position in the country, and as a client of the United States, is weakening; the effect of this perception has been to stimulate a sort of circling of political carrion birds.
Another mechanism for maintaining the state of a cell through cell division is the methylation of cytosines at position 5 (5meC), a widespread heritable DNA modification found in prokaryotes, plants, several fungi, and animals (Iyer et al., 2011).
A poll for the media group that owns the Jerusalem Post suggests the party would win seven seats fewer than in the present government, not least because of a widespread perception that Israel's international position has worsened in the past four years.
The position generator is a widespread method for measuring latent social capital in which respondents are queried about contacts on a list of occupations predefined by the analyst.
The only reason it has such a widespread impact is because of the position the U.S. holds in the global economy.
The candidates are trying to win the favor of unions and blue-collar voters in states like Ohio and West Virginia, of course, but their positions also reflect a widespread belief that free trade with developing countries, and with China in particular, is a kind of scam perpetrated by the wealthy, who reap the benefits while ordinary Americans bear the cost.
Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is positioned to have a widespread impact on the practice of medicine, yet physician acceptance is low.
The negative responses to the Boy Scouts' position are not yet a widespread, grass-roots movement, as evidenced by the Scouts' growing membership.
In seeing subjectivity, at least in simple forms, as a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom, Griffin's position also bears considerable resemblance to Lloyd Morgan's.
