Sentence examples for attempted to position from inspiring English sources

Doyon recruited roughly half a dozen new members and attempted to position the P.L.F. as an élite squad within Anonymous.

"Camp" attempted to position Glover as a consummate outsider; it hinged on the double bind of being, as Glover and others have termed it, a "black nerd".

Lebedev attempted to position the closure of the 30-year old Independent as a bold transition to a digital-only future.

Brand – who has attempted to position himself as an anti-corporate, anti-politics agitator – also laments the power of the "establishment" and "old media".

Browne – who enjoyed close ties to both New Labour's business-friendly elite and later David Cameron's coalition – attempted to position BP as environmentally-minded, flirting with renewables and launching the "Beyond Petroleum" PR campaign.

By the morning of June 25, Custer's scouts had located Sitting Bull's village, and Custer attempted to position the 7th Cavalry close enough to attack his foes at dawn the following day.

The campaign attempts to position North Fork as a bank whose managers get out from behind their desks.

Obviously these figures are an embarrassment for Hillary, because she is attempting to position herself as an everywoman.

He believes that Mr Capellas will attempt to position MCI as the most IT-savvy network operator.

Carnage seems inevitable as up to 198 riders attempt to position themselves in something approaching safety at the head of the field.

And in attempting to position architects as artists who have no responsibility other than to their muse, he may have resembled a rebellious, Ray-Banned, black-suited John Belushi.