Sentence examples for surprising position from inspiring English sources

What is a landlord allowed to do? Sherwin Belkin, a Manhattan lawyer who represents landlords, took a somewhat surprising position.

Soon after Mr. Webster left the government and became a partner in the Washington office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in 1991, he took a surprising position.

In a tech company such as Apple, that's hardly a surprising position, but there's a sense in which that emphasis now seems a tiny bit old hat.

It seemed likely that Hanen would side with the government, but, in 2015, in one of his first decisions in the case, he took a surprising position.

It was the players that Spurs kept last summer, however, who have really propelled the team to the surprising position it now finds itself in.

Federal prosecutors, who often argue that wiretap restrictions do not apply in government investigations, were in the somewhat surprising position of arguing that those same laws should apply to Mr. Councilman's conduct.

It would have to forge fresh alliances, take surprising positions and make unexpected compromises.

The paper occasionally takes surprising positions — it opposed extraordinary rendition, and wrote, this summer, that for the police to shoot rioters would violate the British forces' tradition of restraint.

Massú, who scuttles into some surprising positions to employ a fearsome ­forehand and has a deceptively innocuous-looking serve with a tight, low action, is a bit of an unknown quantity these days.

Such surprising positions!

These aren't surprising positions.