Sentence examples for our present position from inspiring English sources

By this date, we (24th Lancers) should have penetrated as deep as Villers Bocage – 14 miles south-west of our present position.

However, since we have the live data and the memory capability to track the system from launch off, we can constantly update our present position and headings.

Can you, as a matter of fact, my good man, tell us where, in relation to our present position, the King's Road exactly IS?" "Ye're in it," said the aged face at the window".

"With regard to the Thebans, they have wronged us repeatedly, and their last aggression, which has been the means of bringing us into our present position, is within your own knowledge.

President Harry Truman once said of America, "God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose". In his time, that purpose was to contain Communism and build the structures of peace and prosperity that could provide safe passage through the Cold War.

Even if we could get to something like a Norwegian or Swiss option – and don't get me going on the complexities even of those, and of course such arrangements aren't remotely government policy – the difference between that and our present position in the EU would have to be measured in miles, not inches.

Did you gain your present position by careful thought and planning, or was it serendipity?

"Our present league position did not come in to the directors' thoughts.

It was also the perfect way to start a memorable afternoon of racing and after a brief chat with Charlie and a link into our pre-race interview with Cal, the pair of us headed downstairs to our next presenting position and a reminder of Britain's proud two-wheeled past.

But its readers would be better served if its arguments didn't elide important background information on how our two countries arrived at their present position.

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