Country music has always positioned itself as a big, mostly happy family, with the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville, serving as the ancestral estate.
But if Saunders was more callous towards his characters in the past, he has always positioned them within a moral landscape.
Turnbull has always positioned himself above the fray, a character bigger than party and talking points, a person of independent means and outlook – not a hidebound creature of culture and creed and habit, and certainly not a politician in hock to numbers men, or loyalists, or fixers who need to be humoured even when they've fallen into perfidy, or outlived their usefulness.
Newsweek, which is owned by The Washington Post Company, has always positioned itself as a band of hardy guerrillas fighting from the hills -- its average circulation is 3.3 million to Time's 4.2 million -- but Time's tactical defenses have only grown over the last few years.
Simms has always positioned himself outside the stockade, and the more conversational of these poems prickle with an ornery disdain for "mainstream media", southrons, the "so-called conservation lobby", and in particular for "birders" and "twitchers" who sweep into an area to tick a species and then breeze out again, believing themselves to have "seen" the bird.
Schumer has always positioned herself as directly opposed to Metzger's type of rhetoric; as his boss, she is equipped to fire him, and thus to send a message that people who rant about "re-raping the victim's good hole," as he did, cannot work on prominent, progressive TV shows.
Snapchat's creators have always positioned the app as a kind of anti-Facebook younger, less formanti-Facebook youngers keeping in touch than about mass communication.
The iPod touch has always been positioned as a non-phone version of the current iPhone, though the hardware hasn't always been completely in parallel.
Cubby has always been positioned as more of a business or enterprise-ready product, and today's integration with LogMeIn's Join.me continues its focus in that direction.
I want us to be positioned where we've always been positioned: a genuine luxury product, modern luxury for men and women.
The Mandelson style has always been to position himself as the trusted adviser of the leader.
