Sentence examples for losing its position from inspiring English sources

WHEN New York agonises over its place in the world, it is usually because it fears losing its position as the world's financial capital.

It is no longer a matter of wounded pride or the fate of the kidnapped soldiers.If Hizbullah is beaten, it risks losing its position as the strongest power in the fractious Lebanese state, with damaging consequences in the region for its Iranian sponsor and Syrian ally.

Although Abbey is Britain's second largest mortgage lender it has been losing its position on the high street and appears to have been left behind after a series of deals which transformed Britain's high street banks.

Just as it was hard to imagine Microsoft losing its position in 1997, its hard to imagine in 2017 Google or Facebook losing their position.

Even I joined the rock-is-dying crowd in 1998 because it was clear that rock was losing its position as the dominant musical voice of young people.

If Australia, which has been criticised by its Pacific neighbours for failing to take more concerted action to reduce emissions, does not change its tone, Tong says it is in danger not only of losing its position as a regional leader but of being welcome in regional organisations at all.

In 1836 it lost its position as capital of Al-Gharbīyah Al-GharbīyahṬanṭā but continued as the seat of a smaller administrative unit.

As the muscular nature of the heart had been recognized and it had become evident that the heart was nothing but a hollow muscle, it lost its position as the centre of man.

Stein highlighted the aerospace and automotive industries as areas where the UK would be at risk of losing investment if it lost its position of influence in European policymaking.

Ancient Naniwa in what is now Ōsaka was the site of palace or capital complexes intermittently from the early 5th to the mid-7th century, but in 710 it lost its position to Nara, the first "permanent" national capital.

And its stock has been in a tailspin since it lost its position as the number one mobile-phone maker to Helsinki, Finland-based Nokia.