Sentence examples for position actually held from inspiring English sources

Namely, the hypothetical position self-proclaimed centrists want somebody to take — Michael Bloomberg, a chastened Obama, whatever — is almost always the position actually held by the Democratic party.

Between these forces lay the Western Desert, in which the westernmost position actually held by the British was Mersa Matruh (Marsā Maṭİūḥ), 120 miles east of the Cyrenaican frontier.

If Plato's Callicles represents a position actually held by a living Sophist when he advocates free rein for the passions, then it was easy for Plato to argue in reply that human nature, if it is to be fulfilled, requires organization and restraint in the license given to the desires of particular aspects of it; otherwise the interests of the whole will be frustrated.

That said, in times of real trouble, this position actually holds some power and in this case, she held all the power to decide on the Prime Minister's request.

Through the daily doldrums and mindless monotonies in the life of Vice President Selina Meyer (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her cabinet -- including child star Anna Chlumsky as Chief of Staff Amy, and "Arrest Development's" Tony Hale as Selina's personal aide Gary -- viewers quickly realize that this high-powered position actually holds no real power at all.

But this position is actually held by many people in policy circles in both political parties.

Second, Malebranche took from Descartes the view that colors and the other so-called 'secondary qualities' are not qualities of bodies but sensations or modifications of the mind (whether Descartes actually held this position himself is controversial).

Whether or not Descartes actually held this interactionist position is, as discussed earlier, a matter of controversy, but even in Descartes' time the list of the critics of interactionism was a long one.

That job is actually held by Jonathan Ive.

Academia has its anti-hate rallies, dedicated, Michaels writes, "to combating a position that no one actually holds".

They may be so narrow that they force you into positions you don't actually hold.