Sentence examples for position of claiming from inspiring English sources

It was in the difficult position of claiming moral heirship from ancient pre-Christian religion, but having very few credentials to back that up.

Later, she says she "doesn't want to be put in the position of claiming more for the book than it is".

Still, he is in the odd position of claiming to be an instinctive tax-cutter, while running one of the most punitive regimes for high earners in Europe.The sums for the 2010-11 financial year haven't been done yet, but the Treasury thinks the new rate will raise between £1.5 billion and £2 billion a year.

This leaves the realist in the awkward position of claiming that the moving image goes in and out of existence with the switch between analog and digital projection technologies.

Since longtime civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson first began demanding release of tech diversity data in a run on shareholder meetings in early 2014, many companies reversed their previous position of claiming that their diversity data was a trade secret and instead many including Google, Intel and Facebook have started to publish their numbers.

As previously noted, he attempted to derive Hume's Principle from Basic Law V in Gg, but once the contradiction became known to him, he never officially retreated to the 'fall-back' position of claiming that the proof of the Dedekind-Peano axioms from Hume's Principle alone constituted an important result.

He also takes the unpolitician-like position of not claiming to have all the answers, including how to bridge the gaping divide.

All of the examples detailed involved a dominant group in a position of power claiming to be a victim, when in reality they were practicing discrimination against a group that lacked the political power to protect itself.

But the German reclaimed the advantage in controversial circumstances in Monaco with Rosberg leaving the track in qualifying and denying Hamilton the chance of claiming pole position for the race, which the German went on to win.

And that outcome left Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, in something of a commanding position to claim the title of wise men.

Keselowski's victory thrust him into prime position to claim one of two wild-card spots available for the Chase for the championship.