Sentence examples for adopted positions from inspiring English sources

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.

In a filing made with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, BP claimed Juneau had "adopted positions on issues as critical as compensation protocols, documentation requirements, and release language that deviated from the settlement agreement and mirrored positions he took on behalf of his prior clients".

Clinton didn't repudiate the whole Democratic platform — government activism on behalf of ordinary Americans remained the Party's core idea — but he adopted positions on issues like crime and welfare that were more closely aligned with the views of the majority, including some rank-and-file Democrats.

During oral arguments, 9th Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon brought up the Obama administration's recently adopted position that stronger legal protections -- known as "heightened scrutiny" -- should be applied to sexual orientation.

Some officials praised him for adopting positions fought for by so-called good-government groups.

Rather, they tended to adopt positions somewhat intermediate between reductionism and eliminativism.

It pushes the eventual winner into adopting positions that will make it harder to govern and retain voter trust.

Miliband has picked his battles very deliberately, adopting positions that might be left but are also both populist and popular.