Sentence examples for adopt the position of from inspiring English sources
You inevitably adopt the position of a banana.
A change of pace after last week's awesome slayer-fest sees Being Human adopt the position of a closed-set teleplay.
According to a transcript released by the Israeli Embassy here, Mr. Netanyahu urged Britain to adopt the position of President Bush "that leaders compromised by terror cannot be partners for peace".
In the name of history, Lucy Worsley has spent the night in a Tudor rope bed ("You have to adopt the position of a banana"), chugged a pint of seawater (a Georgian cure for constipation), baked a hedgehog on an open fire ("perhaps the queasiest moment of my life"), and toiled as a sixteenth-century laundress ("Urine is a surprisingly excellent stain remover").
The New York schools want the state to adopt the position of the American Medical Association, that "the core clinical curriculum of a foreign medical school should be provided by that school and that U.S. hospitals should not provide substitute core clinical experience".
Where is the Eliseo that challenged the status quo by holding pray-ins at Chicago supermarkets over the conditions for laborers who picked grapes, or the leader who urged the AFL-CIO, despite their (unsubstantiated) concern that immigrants take workers' jobs, to adopt the position of legal status for undocumented immigrants as a tenet of its platform?
When President Carter was calling for adoption of a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the Soviet Union, Senator Bellmon accused Mr. Carter of adopting "the position of a gullible pacifist".
Each side in the debate also accused the other of adopting the position of totalitarian regimes in Iran and China by favoring limitations on Internet sites that people can view.
"I want visitors to feel enveloped, wrapped-up and involved in the experience, rather than adopting the position of an external observer".
"Senator Obama has adopted the position of every liberal interest group in this country, as best I can tell," former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson said in Saturday's debate.
Mr. Bush seems to have adopted the position of some China experts in the United States who argue that America can have more positive influence on Beijing through patient, private dialogue.
