Sentence examples for an attempt to position from inspiring English sources

The mayor denies claims that his stance against illegal immigration is an attempt to position him for higher office.

This homespun hard-arse stuff is pushed with sledgehammer deliberateness – an attempt to position her as Brexit's Bisto mum.

In an attempt to position himself as a "progressive" - not a left-of-Labour - leader, he explained: "The Liberal Democrats are nobody's poodle.

But the smaller Singapore exchange has aggressively wooed international companies as part of an attempt to position as a global exchange under its Asian Gateway strategy.

"Four Trials" "is both an attempt to position Edwards as the little fellow's champion... and a between-the-lines argument against tort reform," Michael Tomasky said in these pages earlier this year.

Collectively, these shows can be seen as an attempt to position Qatar as a prominent cultural hub that values tradition while looking outward — an ambitious goal and one that has yet to be fully realized.

Both deals are a clear attempt to position Dreamcast as a broad entertainment network that can compete with Sony's sne upcoming PlayStation II console.

Already the NDP has made a serious attempt to position itself as the only federalist choice for Quebecers.

In the face of all that, Paramount made what many saw as a clumsy attempt to position "True Grit" as part of the revolution.

Just as Ms. Palin's planned book tour resembles a campaign rollout — complete with a bus tour and pit stops in battleground states — so the second half of this book often reads like a calculated attempt to position Ms. Palin for 2012.

This symbol now looms, not-so-large, in Asana, an app attempting to position tasks at the centre of the workplace environment.