Last year was his breakout season, with 11 goals, a settled position on the wing and a rising profile in the league and the national team picture.
His hands often seek a settled position around his face as he talks — balled into fists on which he rests his chin, or spread beneath his jaw, so that he appears to be posing but is really just paying attention.
Dier was not just England's best player here, he was also pretty much the one member of that front six playing unarguably in his best, most settled position.
One is the province of Sensibility, one is the province of Understanding, and the one in the middle is the province of a faculty that has a far less settled position than the other two, namely, Imagination (see A120).
"I do not apologise for discussing with my coalition colleagues to get to a settlement where we can say to parliament, to industry and the world, that this coalition government now has a settled position on energy policy".
Such is the brutal logic of the conflict, that once a date was set for the new peace effort, there was certain to be an operation that had to be finished, scores to settle, positions to occupy and domestic audiences to satisfy before guns could be stilled.
We find that joint inactivation of β- and γ-catenin scrambles motor neuron settling position in the spinal cord but fails to erode the predictive link between motor neuron transcriptional identity and muscle target.
"But at the end of the day," she said, "we closed the book, we settled the positions.
When everything was ready, he settled into position, crouched on an upturned crate a foot or two from Parks, and stared at him.
