Sentence examples for preserved his position from inspiring English sources

He has preserved his position of power through a series of politically expedient but morally repugnant alliances.

Ryzhkov agreed that Medvedev was agitating to preserve his position, but argued that had only succeeded in firing up his opponents.

According to this theory, Kalugin sacrificed Ogorodnik to preserve his position in the Soviet hierarchy and as a fount of information for the CIA.

Neither Zinovyev's control over the Leningrad party organization and the Comintern nor his belated political alliance with Trotsky (1926) proved sufficient to preserve his position of authority and influence in the party.

But concerned largely with preserving his position, he gave in to the very lawmakers who have been insisting for weeks that the Obama administration is lying about the coming default.

Effectively arguing that Cameron was trying to divide the country to preserve his position in Downing Street, Miliband urged the public to recognise Conservative campaign tactics designed to distract voters.

In an effort to preserve his position, he formed a new sub-factional grouping that some colleagues have dubbed the "Colston left" after Mal Colston, the Labor senator who quit the party in 1996 after Labor failed to nominate him as the deputy Senate president.

Further, the Supreme Court's ruling is an answer to the overwhelming majority of Brazilians who favor Cunha's removal and can no longer tolerate anymore of his political maneuvering in order to preserve his position in the Lower House.

Some committee members speculated that he also would preserve his negotiating position.

Meanwhile the top brass continued to be as unsympathetic as ever: Dryden will clearly do anything to preserve his own position, Hargreaves was exposed as not terribly quick on his feet and Mallick's failure to even look at what Denton was asking him to sign suggests he's incompetent at the very least.

Accordingly, in Róna-Tas's view, Árpád succeeded Levedi as sacred ruler or kende, which enabled his father to preserve his own position of the actual leader of the Hungarians or gyula.