Sentence examples for adopting a position from inspiring English sources

The novel is bulging with ideas Stoppard was later to develop in his plays: the unreliability of biography, the difficulty of adopting a position in a world of equally discredited absolutes, and the unseen pattern linking apparently random events.

The prospects of Labour opposing British membership of the European Union, or adopting a position of neutrality, has grown markedly after a vote at the annual Trades Union Congress.

Democratic leaders in the Senate also are not ready to embrace the idea of a bipartisan compromise on energy legislation, in part out of concern about adopting a position at odds with their expected presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

"Looking back it is easy to forget just what a stand that was, taking abuse from the major parties on both sides of the house and adopting a position that wasn't even supported by the previous leader of his own party".

"Looking back," said David Cameron, the Tory prime minister, "it is easy to forget just what a stand that was, taking abuse from the major parties on both sides of the House and adopting a position that wasn't even supported by the previous leader of his own party".What Mr Kennedy was for, was sometimes harder to discern.

Adopting a position in favour of one or the other production system requires a very personal decision.

Thinking themselves sceptics, they adopt a position of total gullibility.

QUESTION FROM RON: Hey, why don't we just adopt a position of isolationism.

Broadcasters, he sniffed, should simply "argue back; don't adopt a position of automatic compromise".

And it's not because he's adopted a position on welfare.

Elsewhere, we adopted a position of benign neutrality on Trump's domestic innovations.