Sentence examples for defining its position from inspiring English sources

France's foreign minister, Alain Juppé, spoke openly this week of his unhappiness with Washington's slowness and difficulty in defining its position, before the Security Council voted for a no-fly zone.

This research has traditionally used qualitative functional groupings such as 'herbivore' to explore functional diversity, but more recent studies have been based on a series of categorical and continuous traits such as size and depth range, that quantitatively describe the functional role of a species or individual by defining its position in a multi-dimensional trait space5.

Whether at the forefront of technology or of a real estate boom, a company's location is crucial in defining its position in the market.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that there was no major theoretical issue in linguistics that was debated in terms other than those in which he chose to define it, and every school of linguistics tended to define its position in relation to his.

Not only did Lebanon have to grapple with internal problems of social and economic organization, but it also had to struggle to define its position in relation to Israel, to its Arab neighbours, and to Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon.

Keen to avoid uncertainty and instability in the bloc, the EU-27 have said since the referendum in June that Britain should leave as soon as practically possible – although it was accepted that London needs time to define its position.

For each animal, the commune in which it was located at the time of death defined its position in geographic space.

One study [ 56] found no diagnostic characters to separate Hyophryne from Stereocyclops and the author indicated that "…nonmorphological data on Hyophryne (it is known only from the holotype) should help define its position".

While the White House has struggled to define its position, insurance companies have never wavered.

The technique works by ascribing each word a set of numbers (or vector) that define its position in a theoretical "meaning space" or cloud.

Mainstream or respectable Euroscepticism (the present party line) could excite the ultras, or anti-Europeans, into real fury if the Tory party had to define its position on all those protocols.