"unsettling position" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or circumstance that makes someone feel uneasy, uncomfortable, or uncertain. Example: After being laid off from his job of 20 years, John found himself in an unsettling position. He had to search for a new job in a competitive market at the age of 55.
But he is resolved to enter the fray for the Jets' most unsettled and unsettling position by Nov. 19, when they play the Miami Dolphins, a team that picked apart the Jets' secondary three weeks ago.
For Kings of Leon that's a commercial but unsettling position.
Caution over Iraq puts liberal hawks, who are nothing if not moralists, in the psychologically unsettling position of defending a status quo they despise -- of sounding like the compromisers they used to denounce when it came to Bosnia.
One group of women was told that these four men were those who liked them the most, a second group heard that these men rated them as average and a third group was left in the unsettling position of thinking that the men might like them either the most or an average amount.
I find myself in the unsettling position of looking up how Mr. Rogers counsels parents and kids on death, to help explain the man's own demise to Frank.
This leaves the interdisciplinary PhD student in the unsettling position of feeling both encouraged to undertake interdisciplinary health research, but simultaneously lacking an intellectual home.
The viewer's individual perspective becomes more crucial than ever, as most of us are abruptly put in the minority position, a new and unsettling place to be.
"Do not focus on the failure of the system," implored Philae lead scientist Jean-Pierre Bibring, who showed a panorama of six CIVA images and its unsettling portrait of the lander's position.
This odd positioning is about the only unsettling detail inside the cabin (all right, there is the matter of that useless rear seat), where Trump-worthy materials have been lavished and the craftsmanship is impossibly perfect.
Perhaps unsettling, perhaps thrilling, depending on your temperament and position in this new proposed world.
Clark found such an administration unsettling, as he had been selected for the SACEUR position because he believed more in the interventionist policies of the Clinton administration.
