Sentence examples for protected positions from inspiring English sources

When their enemies became Americans and other Westerners operating from protected positions and with advanced equipment, the Taliban were more likely to resort to suicide bombing.

Even those in protected positions are feeling a bit unnerved by the knowledge that they could be transferred or relegated to lower-paying positions.

And the European Commission can bite: it has gone to law over the protected positions of EDF and GDF, and increasingly it allows aid for state companies only with a pledge to privatise.Yet, for all the pressures, the state's holdings remain enormous.

From their protected position, Hancock's men kept up a merciless barrage that sent "death and destruction in their midst.

Best of all, it has a built-in digital camera, in the form of a tiny lens that rotates out of a protected position.

The relatively protected position of pensioners comes despite the fact that for the first time in recorded history, older people are no more likely to be in poverty than their younger counterparts.

Bernie is still trapped inside Nazi Germany in A MAN WITHOUT BREATH (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95), although in a relatively protected position with the Bureau of War Crimes in the Wehrmacht's legal division.

Camera in hand, I darted out from my protected position into the street.

The Atacama spans 600 miles between the Andes and Chilean Coast mountains and in this protected position it rarely receives moisture from the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans.

"I don't know of a single person who has succeeded" in getting a high-level research grant without a tenure-track or similarly protected position, he says.

"Well, there are farmers who have had a protected position and don't want to compete with Victoria," admits Ritchie.