Sentence examples for is not in a position to order from inspiring English sources

Few of Greece's EU companions have much sympathy with its blocking of Macedonia's EU bid, and supplicant Greece is not in a position to order anyone around.

BEST: I was not in a position to prevent my superior from carrying out measures he had ordered or planned.

"If we don't reshape now we won't be in a position to order new equipment in the future.

"We are not in a position where we can treat militancy as a law and order issue.

For now, the only official in a position to order the vessel to be lifted quickly does not seem in a hurry to do so.

Snyder is not in a comparable position.

"As we have only just received the order, the Department is not currently in a position to render a fully informed contemplation of what the judge's order actually demands," Breasseale said.

They command people left and right, even when they are not in the position to be giving the orders.

We were not in an investigative position".

Burnett is not in that position.

The United States is not in this position.