Sentence examples for the basic position from inspiring English sources

"The basic position of the Muslims was, 'Well, everything's fine in our country,' " he said.

The basic position of the Bush administration, worked out after an intensive review, is that an accord that focuses on missiles is no longer sufficient.

The basic position remains: you cannot be compulsorily retired at a set date, unless removing you can be justified as necessary and appropriate for a legitimate aim.

But the basic position is that elderly men are admirable and elderly women are awful [because] what is the point of a post-menopausal woman?

"The basic position I think is this; that what you see when you read the reports today is a mixture of pressure and progress, and the pressure is real.

Indeed yesterday, even as Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, held out the possibility of new talks to settle the antitrust action, the software company gave every indication that it had no intention of backing away from the basic position that it held through a half decade of legal wrangling with the Justice Department.

The barre sessions got smoother and more enjoyable as we became familiar with the basic positions.

But there is really little to no daylight between the basic positions of the Senate candidates, even if Representative Rick A. Lazio was cheered and Hillary Rodham Clinton was jeered by the large crowd at a pro-Israel rally here on Thursday.

Asher Arian, an Israeli political scientist, said that for the last 10 or 15 years a stable majority of about 60percentt of Israelis has supported the basic positions Mr. Sharon outlined.

And with presidential elections in both Russia and the United States next year, the volume could grow louder, even though the basic positions in the missile-defense debate have not changed.

Formal lines dissolve into circles, then become trios; movement flickers out of the basic positions and back in; impulses that begin in one part of the body emerge at another point.