Sentence examples for positioned to exercise from inspiring English sources

Should the two Houses formally disagree, the president would then be positioned to exercise his constitutional authority to adjourn Congress unilaterally and thus create a recess.

Mr. Balaguer could still be in a position to exercise influence should his party come in second in the vote.

I've never involved a normal person or a minor or anyone who wasn't in a position to exercise free choice.... Criminals are blackmailed.

The commission also took pains to say that it was not against creating industrial "champions" as long as they were not in a position to exercise monopoly power.

Such newcomers may find themselves in a position to exercise substantial influence with the new Bush administration, according to experts like Barry Rubin, a professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management in Washington.

And in part it's the diligence of people with the patience to grow a small and dispirited conference into a huge and optimistic one that has put liberals in a position to exercise the choice.

Only Mr. Bernanke is formally in a position to exercise that high authority now, which he is doing — he announced last week that the Fed would inject an extra $1 trillion into the financial system.

With their postseason position hanging on the outcome of the season's final three days, the Yankees are in no position to exercise patience with struggling starting pitchers, and Ivan Nova paid the price of that urgency.

If the government believes student choice drives up quality, why restrict it for some and extend it for just a sub-set of students from more privileged backgrounds, who are in no better position to exercise that choice than anyone else? Far from objecting in principle to the idea of a market, or liberalisation of student numbers, I believe that liberalisation should go further.

As the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, which handles taxes and Social Security, Mr. Baucus is in a position to exercise some serious leverage in defense of his party's core beliefs -- especially protecting the interests of the poor and middle class.

GHash is in a position to exercise complete control over which transactions appear on the blockchain and which miners reap mining rewards.