Sentence examples for friendly position from inspiring English sources

But former U.S. ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman said that Mattis's attempts to woo Erdogan back toward a U.S. friendly position are unlikely to work.

Nazhan also told me that he had provided the G.P.S. coördinates of the house to both the Iraqi Army and the Americans so that they could mark it as a friendly position.

For instance, when calling in an air strike, a forward air controller works with the planes overhead, passing along grid coordinates from a G.P.S. to the aircraft, never giving his own position, only the enemy's; otherwise, a pilot could mistake the grid coordinate of a friendly position for an enemy one, incorrectly entering them into his flight computer.

I recently read an article about it where they were worried that the robots would turn and fire on friendly position so they were trying to figure out how to teach robots battle ethics.

He once admitted in a candid moment that critics called this and other GOP friendly positions he took, Republican lite.

As Carlson's battalion was ending its patrol, Shōji and his surviving troops were reaching friendly positions west of the Matanikau.

Afterwards, Secord briefed U.S. A-1 Skyraider pilots in Thailand on the situation at Lima Site 85, to familiarize them with friendly positions around the facility, so they could cover the evacuation of U.S. personnel and support the Hmong counterattack.

But the Supreme Court need not adopt such a government-friendly position to save the ACA.

They call it "taking a state-friendly position", meaning a position of approval of Vladimir Putin's actions.

That all changed on election day 2012 when four states chose the more gay-friendly position on same-sex marriage ballot measures.

According to the ninth-century Arab geographer and historian Yaqubi, author of The Book of Countries, its trade-friendly position on the Tigris close to the Euphrates gave it the potential to be "the crossroads of the universe".