Sentence examples for take on this position from inspiring English sources

"I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't wanting and prepared to take on this position, and the consequences that flow from it, in the general election that follows after that".

Although Panetta is unlikely to favor this option, he may be a good choice to take on this position that otherwise hovers on the edge of extinction.

"When I was contacted about taking on this position, I immediately recognized that the glamour position here was that of the chief prosecutor -- that was the opportunity to be America's hero," said Colonel Gunn, 44, a graduate of the Air Force Academy and Harvard Law School who served most recently as executive assistant to the Air Force judge advocate general.

In a press release, Jasmin Buttar, the editor of the BBC's business and economics unit, said: "The business slots on the Today programme play a big role in setting the business news agenda for each day, so it is great for the BBC to have such a high-calibre, agenda-setting journalist taking on this position.

Prior to taking on this position, I ran the grassroots program for Greenpeace.

The United States consciously took on this position of leadership in the post-Cold War order.

Training is key, to be sure, but these guys truly do have a warrior gene within that allowed them to take on this greatest of positions.

"I'm compassionate and right, and you're a biased Islamophobe" is not a fair and reasonable position to take on this issue.