Sentence examples for establishing his position from inspiring English sources

When nobody leaves he issues a final warning: "If you're staying, this isn't a democracy anymore," establishing his position as leader of the group.

The powerful merchants attempted to convince Muhammad to abandon his preaching by offering him admission into the inner circle of merchants, and establishing his position therein by an advantageous marriage.

From these he established his position as latitude 89 degrees 57 minutes.

Especially on faster surfaces, the server may also follow his delivery to the net and establish his position.

As he struggles to establish his position, Laing's good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building.

Looming over the Fox News operations is a battle for succession to Mr. Ailes, who over 20 years established his position as one of the most powerful in television.

He established his position with a number of speeches, specialising in economic affairs, becoming the spokesman of the assembly as president of the commission for finance.

Mr Wallace has established his position in Scottish politics and, in the aftermath of Donald Dewar's death in October 2000, he is likely to become even more powerful.

His seminal 1968 book, The Idea of a Town, established his position as an anthropologist of architecture, radically rethinking the cities of ancient Greece and Italy as not just the products of practical concerns, but of underlying sacred and symbolic orders.

His first major work, Der Römerbrief (1919; The Epistle to the Romans), established his position as a notable theologian with a new and arresting message about the sheer Godness of God and the unlimited range of his grace.

His first two operas, Der Protagonist (one act, libretto by Georg Kaiser, 1926) and Royal Palace (1927), established his position, with Ernst Krenek and Paul Hindemith, as one of Germany's most promising young opera composers.