Sentence examples for on a higher position from inspiring English sources

Mr. Menendez, who is the vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, has his eye on a higher position, possibly majority leader if the Democrats take control of the House.

Suppose in a particular arithmetic test, a child failed to give the correct answer to the question "How much is 2*3?" In that case it is probably not very useful to ask "How much is 34*17?" The latter question can help to distinguish between children on a higher position of the arithmetic ability scale, but will add little information for a child who failed to answer the first question correctly.

No matter how well you did as mayor, you weren't likely to move on to a higher position if you had to depend on a voting population that's majority white".

The lack of space in the Tiger's engine bay causes a few maintenance problems; the left bank of spark plugs is only accessible through a hole in the bulkhead for instance, normally sealed with a rubber bung, and the oil filter had to be relocated from the lower left on the block to a higher position on the right-hand side, behind the generator.

However, Hill's men heard the rebel movements on their flanks and retreated to a higher position, abandoning some wounded men, who were eventually captured by the Americans.

On the Billboard issue dated January 16, 2010, the song made a re-entry on the chart at a higher position of 47, and was the highest debut of the chart.

This "superiority" manifests itself in a belief that private education confers a higher position on the ladder of life.

I held a higher position on the rung of movie-crew hierarchy, but Tim and I were within the same somewhat low-ranking realm.

Don has in the past checked his methods with alligators, sea turtles, and even elephants, but here he added a goose to include something with a higher position on the water – something more like a pterosaur was thought to adopt.

To become more well known and achieve a higher position on Google, as more people link to you, of course, takes advertising, but again the might of Google dominates the online advertising market in the UK, which is why the changes that happened in the summer of 2006 to Foundem's scores within Google AdWords platform were so worrying for the company.

More links = a higher position on the list.