Sentence examples for commonwealth positions from inspiring English sources

"There is widespread concern that the [reef filed management program], which supports more than 100 state and commonwealth positions, is being starved of funds and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is operating as a shell of its former self," Miles said.

In March 1944, the Japanese launched the first of two invasions, an operation against British positions in Assam, India, and soon besieged Commonwealth positions at Imphal and Kohima.

The division's first engagement came on the west coast around Muar on 14 January, where the Japanese Twenty-Fifth Army was able to outflank the Commonwealth positions due to Bennett misdeploying the forces under his command so that the weak Indian 45th Brigade was assigned the crucial coastal sector and the stronger Australian brigades were deployed in less threatened areas.

Most of his possessions were in Ukraine, and he became Ukraine's unofficial ruler; some foreigners referred to him as "viceroy of Ukraine", though no such Commonwealth position ever existed.

The group's co-presidents David Agnew and Tony West said they recognized Puerto Ricans are dissatisfied with commonwealth status and would work with Congress on the issue, without taking a position on whether the November non-binding referendum tilted toward statehood.

The current commonwealth status was not listed as an option.

Unusually, ahead of a Coag meeting, the prime minister declined to specify his own view about the issue, and suggested the commonwealth's position was that the states needed to make a decision.

The commonwealth's position is the ACT law is invalid because it is inconsistent with the Marriage Act and the Family Law Act.

"It is our view, and I think the commonwealth's view from our discussions over the weekend, that while the banks are right to consider their balance sheet position, they also have to consider the national interest," he told reporters.

"To have the chief law enforcement officer of the commonwealth taking the position that we take — that the federal government discriminates against married same-sex couples — is a good thing," Mr. Buseck said.

On 10 April, a plan was formulated to withdraw Greek and Commonwealth troops from their positions in the Verria pass of the Vermion Mountains to the River Aliakmon.