Sentence examples for position of picking from inspiring English sources

Firms are taking aim at competitors, and regulators are stuck in the awkward position of picking winners and losers - all of which has delayed new rules.

Mr. Greenspan strongly resisted his appointment to the board, complaining that he did not want to be put in the position of picking winners and losers.

"We didn't like being in the position of picking a release date and then working our way back to create the movie," he said.

But that places the board in the position of picking winners and losers, something all parties said they wanted to avoid.

"They could be in the position of picking up a couple of billion and then having to convince the powers that be that they need to survive," said Dr. Keith P. Klugman, a pneumonia specialist at the Emory University school of public health.

This Friday, Mingiedi will find himself in the unlikely position of picking up a BBC World Music award for best newcomer a mere 40 years into Konono's career, something he finds almost as hilarious as having his picture taken: "I think you are the newcomers," he says, "not me".

When D.C. communications consultant Jenni LeCompte served as President Bill Clinton's media monitor in the late 1990s, the nighttime position consisted of picking up early-edition newspapers and then painstakingly cutting and taping story clips to be copied and delivered by 7 a.m. each day.

A determination late in the election (or afterwards) regarding Cruz's (in eligibility would introduce an inflammatory variant on the immigration issue into the heart of the campaign and place the Court in the position of potentially picking winners and possibly defying the popular will.

He is far better when closer to the opposition goal and has a knack of picking up goalscoring positions that Grealish can't come close to.

Peter Wright's Mail on Sunday is in pole position to pick up readers of the now-defunct News of the World.

As those industrial economies sputter, China is now in a position to pick up some of the slack: selling more of its own goods at home and buying more from the rest of the world.