When President Polk entered the White House the following day, March 4, 1845, he was in a position to recall Tyler's dispatch to Texas and reverse his decision.
Because the boat was still in Turkish waters at the time, Mr Lewis' crew were not dispatched to the scene and were therefore not in a position to help when the vessel subsequently started to sink, leaving 31 people dead.
But CBS was not seeking confrontation, and by dispatching Packer and Jim Nantz to Denver, where they called victories by Maryland and Syracuse, it placed its lead announcers in a position to call tomorrow's matchup between the last two national champions.
He's in a position to know.
What a position to be in today.
Earlier, Serena Williams overcame a rough stretch in the second set to dispatch Maria Kirilenko, 6-1, 6-4.
She needed another two and a half hours to dispatch Maria Kirilenko in the fourth round.
Overheard in a Madison Avenue elevator, dispatch case to dispatch case: "I like the way George underplays his conceit".
And while I'm not in a position, due to a crammed dining calendar and the finite space in my stomach, to contribute in one fell swoop to the canon, I'd like to offer the occasional burger dispatch.
Whenever there's a change in the SQL database, the dispatch nodes get a notification letting them know that there is new data to dispatch.
