Sentence examples for its fundamental position from inspiring English sources
"This is the deal, it's the best possible and the European Union won't change its fundamental position when it comes to this issue," Juncker said.
Lucretius devotes a substantial section to describing optical illusions, which his atomic theory claims to be able to account for without sacrificing its fundamental position that it is never the senses that lie, only our interpretations of their data.
Speaking to the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica last month, the pope said he wanted to shift the church's focus from doctrinal issues without changing its fundamental position on them.
The chancellor said on Friday that he did not think the EU would change its fundamental position around the backstop, but that he had heard that European politicians were thinking very hard about where their red lines had been drawn.
On the contrary, his fundamental position in international politics is a committed cosmopolitanism, an impartial concern for all human beings.
Another junior fellow that year was the psychologist B. F. Skinner, with whom Mr. Quine came to share, as he put it, "the fundamental position that an explanation -- not the deepest one, but one of a shallower kind -- is possible at the purest behavioral level".
His later writings show no change in his fundamental positions.
During prime minister's questions, Cameron said that "our fundamental position is that it's unfair to subsidise spare rooms in the social sector if you don't subsidise them in the private sector … That is a basic issue of fairness".
This ethical dimension of freedom as the power of self-determination (which also entails a duty) explains the central place of the notion of "engagement (commitment)." Before it designates any necessity to choose in particular situations, "engagement" refers to the fundamental position of the human individual, whose very being consists in having to make use of its freedom.
The fundamental position of our bank is strong, and we are looking to make it even stronger.
"The fundamental position is that Japan should stay as a peace-loving nation that does not promote conflict".
