Silvio Berlusconi and Nicholas Sarkozy, not to mention Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have sometimes adopted positions that were formerly the exclusive preserve of extremist parties.
These men have now adopted positions that Ayatollah Montazeri has argued for years, that even in a religious state legitimacy comes from the people.
To make up for their lapses in orthodoxy, each has now adopted positions at the far end of the ideological spectrum.
Being a populist helped elicit a warm response; he adopted positions difficult to fulfill, like saying Egyptians should have the legal right to eat meat daily.
It is interesting that some recent theories of vagueness have adopted positions resembling Unger's in some respects, but without the extreme conclusions.
German conservatives adopted positions from reformism to reaction, aiming to contain democratic forces though not all of them were opposed to the Aufklärung or Enlightenment.
As tensions rose between the British parliament and the colonies, he gradually adopted positions in opposition to the parliament's policies.
Adopting Position One, notice and describe all that you see, hear, feel and, possibly, smell and taste.
Select one of the other people and now adopt Position Two, that is, step into their shoes.
Some officials praised him for adopting positions fought for by so-called good-government groups.
