Sentence examples for productive position from inspiring English sources

A bargaining union would not accept featherbedding, for example, but instead would offer to give up featherbedding in exchange for something else (perhaps cash, or the creation of an additional productive position), because the featherbedding costs the employer more than it benefits the union members.

"By the time you get to the late 1940s, all of what I think of as the Maya Deren acolytes -- Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, Gregory Markopoulos -- were attempting to make experimental films on their own, separate from the industry, which is essentially a new productive position.

It vividly demonstrates that the notion of a generalized tree of life is not the most productive position to hold.

We will argue that the universal tree of life, the single traditional model to describe evolution, is no longer the most scientifically productive position to hold.

This traditional model to describe evolution is no longer the most scientifically productive position to hold, because of the plurality of evolutionary patterns and mechanisms involved.

Yet here he was, in the basement of the rectory, in group sessions and private meetings, counselling teen-agers on how to overcome promiscuity and alcohol dependency and domestic dysfunction and assume more productive positions in a society he despised.

This will also help you to know your employees more intimately, gauge their abilities, and put them in productive positions.

Perhaps most striking for those who remember a time when Derrida's oeuvre was viewed as a fount of productive positions on virtually every philosophical topic, there is an increasing tendency to refer to his "one or two" major ideas, as if his thought were distinguished not by its range but by its lack thereof...

These numerous interactions run along the entire length of the peptide, and, although relatively weak individually, they collectively contribute to the productive positioning of the peptide in the active site in a significant way.

Would it be fair to say that you occupy an uncomfortable - if highly productive - position between those who criticise your perceived privilege and conservatives offended by what you choose to share?

When prompted further, say that what you are looking for is a situation in which you and your spouse are in productive academic positions.