Sentence examples for from a weak position from inspiring English sources

He begins from a weak position and faces a highly polarized public.

"Khamenei may be reluctant to negotiate — perhaps he does not want to from a weak position — but his hand is going to get weaker as time goes by".

Likewise, despite the success of its handheld Gameboy, Nintendo is preparing for its next generation from a weak position, with sales of the ageing N64 slumping.

Though at first Rommel did some damage to the British tanks as they came into action piecemeal from a weak position, he failed to break through to the coast behind Gazala.

Britain would be negotiating from a weak position both economically and politically: we need their trade more than they need ours, and the UK could expect few favours from an EU intent, among other things, on dissuading other members from leaving.

Under Canadian laws, the earliest possible election date is May 2. Though members of the three opposition parties celebrated the government's defeat in the House of Commons by tossing papers into the air, their parties appear to be starting the campaign from a weak position.

(He would later write, in praise of Irving Kristol, that "one learns more from a well-written defense of a weak position... than from a muddled exposition of a line one agrees with").

Constrained resources generally mean that interventions, when necessary, come at a later time, under less favorable conditions, from a weaker position.

Whereas the House Republicans are operating from a weaker position, making demands that haven't yet cracked the wall of the Democratic unity, and putting Obama in a position, thus far, where he can't move to meet them without essentially cutting the heart out of his presidency.

This is decent and roughly in line with the goals of JPMorgan Chase (these calculations use tangible equity for both firms, assume the tougher incoming "Basel 3" capital rules are already in place, and presume that both firms run with a 10% core capital ratio).Yet HSBC starts from a weaker position.

"The opposition will approach a possible second shot at the presidency from a weaker position after Capriles's loss, and it will be challenging for it to unite at all," said global intelligence analysts Stratfor in a briefing paper.