Sentence examples for position of affairs from inspiring English sources

NEW YORK — The criticism of the average man, that Wall Street acts "without reason," seems largely justified by the recent position of affairs here.

Reports of clashes with some of the club's established players helped undermine Villa-Boas's position, a state of affairs that does not surprise Hughton.

Despite his bow toward noninvolvement, Roosevelt had broken with the traditional position of isolation from affairs outside the Western Hemisphere.

Antony is deeply anxious about his loss of sexual potency and position in the world of affairs.

Gallinger tries to solve a problem which is implicit in Reinach's position: if all states of affairs either obtain or do not obtain, in what sense can some of them be said to be possible?

According to the account, the board claimed it was being put in an "inviduous position by the continued refusal to set a budget - with one member going so far as to add that he would be obliged to consider his position were the state of affairs to continue".

Reinach, however, embraced a realist position towards both positive and negative states of affairs.

X must stand in a particular position to the desirable state of affairs to make her have a (conclusive) reason to bring it about.

This week Reid was shuffled sideways to the position of director of corporate affairs and content innovation.

To cut a long story short, I worked there for 18 months and then returned to Lancaster to take up the position of education and public affairs officer for the Society for Experimental Biology SEBB).

But Macierewicz himself vaulted into the position of minister of internal affairs in 1991.