Sentence examples for unchallenged position from inspiring English sources

Demirtaş's relationship with Öcalan is crucial, given Öcalan's unchallenged position as a kind of "father" of the Kurdish nation.

The fact the score was so grippingly close from start to finish demonstrated the stresses and strains of a World Cup knockout match counted for more than New Zealand's unchallenged position as the world's number one ranked team.

The Germans should have added a second while Argentina dawdled, Miroslav Klose skying over a shot from an unchallenged position near the penalty spot after Gabriel Heinze's error and Müller's pull-back.

Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean are midway through an American tour celebrating the silver anniversary of the release of This Is Spinal Tap and its unchallenged position as the greatest rock satire in cinema history: the tale of a gormless, deluded but ultimately endearing British heavy metal band and the indignities heaped on them as they tour America.

The mayor is considered a shoo-in for a second term with no opponent daring to step forward, but hapless political aides have botched the ritual task of gathering 2,000 signatures to certify his unchallenged position on the Democratic line in this overwhelmingly Democratic city.

The time-compensated sun compass enjoys an unchallenged position at the centre of our understanding of bird navigation, where, in combination with large-scale map factors, it is thought to control navigation from unfamiliar places in a two-step map-and-compass process (Baker, 1978, 1984; Kramer, 1961; Wallraff, 2005; Wiltschko & Wiltschko, 2009).

As Ackerman notes, even if Congress passes a new, restrictive resolution against ISIS, a new President could always fall back on the unchallenged Obama position of 2014 and insist that the 2001 resolution is sufficient to justify some further campaign.

First of all, we should not assume that Vladimir Putin's essentially unchallenged autocratic position means that there are no meaningful politics in Russia beyond the intrigues of a handful of courtiers and cronies around the throne.

Both had gone abroad to study and returned to inherit, unchallenged, powerful positions in major political parties.

Mr Clegg writes: "There is much to play for, but a real risk that this opportunity for modernisation will be lost if the hardliners are allowed to assert their position unchallenged.

It's surely not too much that megabanks that enjoy an implicit guarantee from the taxpayers don't allow their traders to build up huge derivatives positions unchallenged by senior managers.