Sir David says, with wry understatement, that the Chinese authorities "look at the historical position of a bank .By virtue of its size, China is the "holy grail" of banking, says Jonathan Larsen, who runs Citi's consumer business in Asia.
Though during subsequent years and until today newer types of hard plastics came into existence to replace hard rubber, the hard rubber industry continued to stay in its position of importance by virtue of its unique characteristics, the main one being its chemical resistance and its extensive use in the process industries.
The classical statement that a profession attains and maintains its position by virtue of the protection and patronage of some elite segment of the society which has been persuaded that there is some special value in its work [ 45] probably still stands.
As an importer, he occupies the painful position of embracing the virtues of one style, even if it may contribute to the demise of another, one that he adores.
At times he felt ambivalent about Zen, and Rubin — who for himself discovered in Zen not just a way back into that realm that possessed him for five infinite seconds in high school but also the basis of a new clinical approach he called meditative psychotherapy — sometimes found himself in the paradoxical position of affirming the virtues of Zen to a master who had devoted his life to it.
We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues.
He achieved this position by virtue of his great wealth (the result of the largest banking network in Europe) and an extensive network of patronage obligations.
Last week, he told a photographer who was perhaps excessively perfectionist to "just take the fucking picture!" This is the ultimate abuse of authority: someone powerful by virtue of birth abusing someone who holds their position by virtue of ability, knowing they can't respond.
The chiefly clans in some cases claimed their position by virtue of ancient military conquest and in others by virtue of being the first to occupy the land.
Such was the case of the appliance used for this purpose by Blanco et al. [33], Cooke and Battagel [34], Hans et al. [35], and Johnston et al. [36] which, be it due to its size or even because it induced changes in mandibular position by virtue of the opening it produced, can have a real impact on the natural positioning of the structures.
