Sentence examples for positional from inspiring English sources
The word "positional" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when something has a specific arrangement or location in comparison to other things. For example: "The positional relationship between the sun, Earth, and moon determine the cycle of the tides."
adjective
Relating to the position of something.
"When everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody"; and the popularity of "positional goods" - acquired not for their utility but to reflect status - shows how attractive demonstrations of social superiority can be.
It was an incredibly poor goal to concede, though Monreal deserves great credit for his positional bravery and his impressive near-post finish against David de Gea, who later made a couple of outstanding saves to keep United in contention.
In their epic first match – KK1, as it is called, ran to 48 games – Kasparov's attacks foundered on Karpov's fine positional understanding.
The flats are "positional goods" bought not because of their intrinsic merit but in order to demonstrate something about the owner's place in society.
His style is quiet and positional.
In that case, all their consumption needs have probably been met and the only thing that remains is the positional game, in which wealth totals are the way one keeps score.
Certainly, the end of the bubble years has meant an implosion in the market for many positional consumer goods.A related point is the extent to which high wages in bubble professions led to a relative dearth of qualified workers in other fields, pushing up costs there.
But art has negative cashflows; it costs money to insure and store.Instead, art is what economists call a "positional good": worth something because it is limited in supply and many people clamour to own it.
To use a distinction made by Peter Kellner, president of YouGov, it is more a "valence" issue than a "positional" one.The recent success of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which wants to leave the European Union, has propelled Europe up the agenda.
Any gains to be expected from pushing out more graduates are then further reduced by the positional-good effect.
(A similar (and similarly elusive) view was expressed by Jean-Paul Sartre in the doctrine that "every consciousness is a non-positional consciousness of itself"([1937] 1957, [1942] 1953).) (For recent discussion of Brentano and Husserl and of the relation between the two, see Kelly 2003, Siewert 2006, Thomasson 2000 and Zahavi 1998, 2005).
