"formed a position" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used in a business or professional context to describe the act of establishing or creating a stance or opinion on a particular topic or issue. Example: After much research and discussion, the team formed a position on the new marketing strategy that they believed would be most effective in reaching their target audience.
Governor Pataki avoided commenting on the no-smoking bill until late in the legislative session, when he and his aides said that he had concerns about its effects on small restaurants, but that he had not formed a position.
However the resources we could be using to create better outcomes, both for us and people in need, are currently being wasted with massively expensive offshore processing and detention measures before we've even formed a position on who we want to help.
"Flinders University has approached the department of education for information but the university has yet to form a position on the matter".
Our goal is to get a deeper insight into the state-of-the-art in this area, as well as to form a position with respect to possible needs and gaps in the current tools used by industry and academia, which need to be addressed in order to enhance the applicability of model-based testing techniques.
They can say so-and-so was at college with the president, that professor so-and-so helped him form a position on nuclear power, or some think-tanker may have had a role in the campaign.
For each position, the p(A i ) of different amino acids form a position set, and for a sequence S with n amino acids, n values (extracted from each position set) comprise a composition vector.
But in late January, hundreds of rebels from an Islamic brigade known as Soqour al-Sham, or the Falcons of Syria, gathered in Heesh and formed a blocking position on the western side of the road.
That night, he formed a defensive position, and beat off a small Japanese counterattack.
At 15 30 they reached Es Salt, passed through the town to the east, and formed a defensive position in the hills for the night.
Two months ago the school district formed a new administrative position: chief diversity and multicultural inclusion officer.
The GNP layer was formed at a position of 3.6 μm from the surface of the conductive glass in TiO2 layers of 6.0 μm thickness.
