Sentence examples for an effort to position from inspiring English sources

Their move was widely seen as an effort to position themselves as reformers in a post-Papandreou future — or perhaps the start of a potential breakaway party in a new political constellation.

Earlier in the conference, the Ukip leader made an effort to position Ukip as a party not of the left or right but one whose voters are "mostly in the middle" of the political spectrum.

Macrovision, in an effort to position itself at the forefront of the digital platform business, has agreed to buy the television listings provider Gemstar-TV Guide International for $2.8 billion in cash and stock.

Merck's chief executive, Richard T. Clark, said on Wednesday that the overhaul was part of an effort to position Merck for the future — not a response to particular problems in 2008.

More broadly, Democrats say that Mr. Obama's stances on the consumer agency and the new tax on big banks, together with his public comments assailing the banks, suggests an effort to position himself as more of a populist fighter at the opening of a midterm election year.

Its new site also compares Spotify's average royalties of between $6,000 and $8,400 per million listens to figures of $3,000 for a "video streaming service" (i.e. YouTube) and $1,300 $ $1,500 for a "radio streaming service" (i.e. Pandora), in an effort to position Spotify as a better friend to musicians than those rivals.

Even Microsoft's latest ad campaign, a $200 million effort to position its software as "reliable," got off to an embarrassing start when the company suffered server outages and hacker attacks that lingered over four days.

"I made a major effort to position myself at this reception," he said, adding that he is eager to sit down with her after the election to discuss the future.

Senator John Kerry won back-to-back victories on Saturday in caucuses in the District of Columbia and Nevada and then headed to Wisconsin, where he lashed out at President Bush in a continuing effort to position himself as the de facto nominee.

Now, while Wiggins kicks back before his final track outings, Cummings will continue – subject to selection – to the world road race championships in Qatar, where he hopes to ride in support of his Dimension Data team-mate Mark Cavendish, who was prominent on team duty on Saturday but critically also on Monday, when he put in a massive effort to position Cummings at the front for the Struggle.

Mrs. Clinton spoke on the first day of a two-day kickoff for her fall push, which her camp is calling "The Change We Need," a parry to Mr. Obama's effort to position himself as the candidate of change.