'occupy a central position' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when you need to describe a person, object, or idea that has great importance or influence in relation to other people, objects, or ideas. For example: In the team, Mary occupied a central position, as she was the only one with the necessary skills and experience to coordinate the project.
Israel and Palestine occupy a central position in the book.
At this time, fairly extensive public works are represented by temple structures and large sculptured monuments, which occupy a central position in towns and villages.
Sun heroes and sun kings also occupy a central position in Indian mythology, where Vivasvant, the father of Yama, corresponds to the Iranian Vivahvant, the father of Yima.
Ashbery himself was the first to be amazed at how a figure who so resolutely argued against convention, the quintessential outsider, came to occupy a central position in American poetry.
Because of the cultivation of this expected response, praise and thanksgiving occupy a central position in Christian prayer and in the liturgy, so much so that its name is given to the Eucharistic Prayer the Prayer of Thanksgiving.
This kind of assay is possible because both virulence and resistance tend to occur in approximately normal, or bell-shaped, frequency distributions; that is, most members of the host and microorganism populations occupy a central position with regard to these properties, exceptional individuals appearing at both extremes.
p53 and GRB2 (growth factor receptor-bound protein) are two prominent hubs having a large number of neighbors and occupying a central position in the network characterized by a high 'betweenness centrality'.
The island of Crete occupies a central position in the eastern Mediterranean.
Among those philosophers for whom symbolic logic occupied a central position was W.V. O
In addition to agriculture, the raising of livestock (sheep and Arabian horses) occupied a central position in the peninsular economy.
The second feature is iconographic a portrait of Federico and his son Guidobaldo (probably by Pedro Berruguete) that occupies a central position on the wall of the study.
