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Arthur, meanwhile, had in 1871 been appointed collector of the Custom House, a position described by Greenberger as "the most lucrative job in the entire federal government".

I stripped off and stood in the Amerikanka stress torture position, described by the opposition, for as long as I could bear.

Key to the ruling was his conclusion that Congress's tax power was enough to uphold the law, a compromise position described by legal commentators as "threading the needle" between the two competing factions of the court.

The same position, described by one of the agents as a "combination of Steinbrenner go-fer and troubleshooter," had last been held in the mid-70's by another former F.B.I. agent, Charles Cusick, whom Mr. Steinbrenner knew when Mr. Cusick was head of the bureau's field office in Cleveland.

Though opposed to monarchy on principle, the Romans during the republic (509 27 bce) would in times of threat appoint a dictator, one individual who was granted complete control over the army and state for a period of six months, a position described by the historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus as an "elective tyranny".

This model is similar to the science specialist position described by Schwarz et al. (2000).

Some philosophers (and, for that matter, some self-hating psychologists) also argue that mental states are irrelevant to behavior, leading to the positions described by Owen Flanagan as conscious inessentialism and epiphenomenalism.

Individual candidates don't have to endorse all of the positions described by the platform, but the guys who wrote it are important party officials and you can more or less assume that it represents "normal" Republican views.

Brian Dietz, a spokesman for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, an industry group, declined to comment, but he referred The Huffington Post to a January 14 filing that supports some of the positions described by advocates as loopholes.

The residues in the protein sequences of each group located at the avian-human signature positions described by Chen et al. [7] were listed in Table 1.

To achieve uniformity, a number of authors have used the classification of head and neck positions described by Gómez-Álvarez et al. [ 13].