Sentence examples for the respective positions from inspiring English sources

Michael Finkel's tragic story (Nov. 19) could, paradoxically, support the respective positions of the National Rifle Association and advocates of gun control.

Something interesting, but little remarked upon, is happening to the respective positions of the Tory and Labour parties in relation to the euro.

Philippe Albera, a Swiss music critic, makes the additional point in the performance commentary that Nono questioned "the respective positions of the composer, interpreter and listener".

Employers would do likewise, says Simon Ost, a lawyer specialising in industrial disputes: "The respective positions would most likely become more entrenched, making disputes more difficult to resolve".Still, this may only be the start of a summer of trouble.

Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land (2001) showed two soldiers trapped in a no man's land between the respective positions of Serb and Bosnian Muslim forces, with a third lying on a booby trap which will explode if he is moved - an obvious, but brutally potent metaphor.

Projections calculated using the average annual growth of the respective positions between 1997 and 2007.

In this graph, positive peaks indicate that the respective position provides a higher stabilizing contribution in the unmodified protein than in the oxidized form.

Hence, only UCP2 and UCP3 contain a second basic residue (i.e. l-arginine) at positions 168 and 171, respectively, while UCP1 has an l-threonine at the respective position (166).

The research reported here aimed to optimize the respective positioning of the profiles.

However, reports on how altering the respective position affects the properties of the peptide are conflicting.

These framing strategies seem to be intimately linked to the respective position of the actors in their local contexts.