Sentence examples for take one position from inspiring English sources

There is nothing new about advocacy groups lobbying corporations to take one position or another on social issues, but with ballot measures on marriage in four states this fall, the stakes in winning corporate support are higher than ever for both sides of the debate.

"They'd love to see us take one position or another," Mr. Crowders said, "but they understand we should be neutral.

"You never take one position".

"Always the same with you –you never take one position," he concluded.

"Monroe's representatives took one position on Monroe's domicile at death for 40 years, and then changed their position when it was to their great financial advantage; an advantage they secured years after Monroe's death by convincing the California legislature to create rights that did not exist when Monroe died.

"We note with disappointment cases where governments took one position earlier and take another one now," Poland's foreign minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, said in Warsaw.

But it doesn't seem to recognise that taking one position should have to preclude a contradictory view a second later.

Your neighbor takes one position and you see he is ready to argue until next New Year's Eve.

So we find Clinton was correct to this extent: If the Wikileaks quote is accurate — and Clinton did not dispute it — she was indeed holding the Great Emancipator up as an example to justify taking one position in public and another in "back room discussions".

Key barriers could take one of three positions, making each target easy, difficult, or blocked (shown here as shades of gray).

Flip-flops are electronic components that can take one of two stable positions.