"stale position" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can refer to a situation or circumstance that has become unproductive, stagnant, or unchanging. It is often used in discussions about politics, business, or relationships. Example: The negotiations between the two countries have reached a stale position, with neither side willing to compromise.
However, for the wider Labour party and disenchanted public, reminders that even a New Labour foreign secretary, Robin Cook, once championed a human rights-led foreign policy could lead to a refreshingly frank re-examination of Labour's somewhat stale foreign policy positions.
"Any effort to connect campaign contributions to Dr. Price's policy positions is an increasingly stale and desperate Democratic talking point," he said.
Much of it reads as if it were merely a combination of hastily cobbled-together speeches and position papers, filled out with stale one-liners and homiletic pronouncements — the kind of book made for gift giving rather than actual reading.
Rhetorically the debate was strikingly free of stale sound-bites - even if the positions sketched out by the candidates were familiar.
Merchandise can be positioned for optimal visibility when needed, and stale inventory can be quickly earmarked for discount or markdown based on shopper traffic patterns.
Though she had worked her way up to the position of project manager, she said, "I felt stale; the job wasn't much of a challenge".
However, market shocks based only on historical events could become stale and less relevant over time as the company's positions change, particularly if more salient features are not added each year.
The icing on the rather stale cake was the mess made over the selection of Sam Burgess in a position even his club would not play him in and the eventual resignation of Stuart Lancaster as head coach.
Regardless of how it evokes some state of how things were, perhaps even still in some ways how they are, the book's position as an icon among language-based ambition has long gone stale.
It's clearly about taking the opposite position of whatever Democrat X has to say -- and then using stale sarcasm, deliberately uninformed outrage and hackish jokes to ridicule it.
That war should be done only in the United States," says ex-President Vicente Fox about the position Mexico has had to endure -- and he's had it with not only us, but also our stale government's solutions.
