Sentence examples for useful positions from inspiring English sources

As many of the scouts spoke German, they found useful positions – some were even among the prison police and were able to access the prisoners' files.

You can also rearrange the order of the tiles into more useful positions on the screen and group apps into customized combinations.

There may still be no uniform Democratic alternative, but many thoughtful Democrats have been developing useful positions, including supporting the already evident break-up of Iraq into autonomous Sunni, Shia and Kurdish states with the US establishing a quasi-permanent base in Kurdistan.

But the LCD, though not large, flips around to various useful positions.

A game of chess is normally divided into three phases: opening, typically the first 10 moves, when players move their pieces to useful positions for the coming battle; then middlegame; and last the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone, kings typically take a more active part in the struggle, and pawn promotion is often decisive.

The 5-inch guns were poor in accuracy in rough seas due to the open casemates mounted in the hull, so the 5-inch armament was reduced to 16 guns in 1918 by removal of the least useful positions near the ends of the ship.

"It's a useful position for the candidate who is in power," Mr. Dzaganiya said.

Binny removed openers Graeme Fowler and Chris Tavare, but at 141/3 England were in a useful position, until a fine run out by Yashpal Sharma precipitated an England collapse 1980s style.

The special wheelchair Mr. Langevin pilots, which was designed by the same inventor who created the Segway, allows him to raise himself up to about 5 feet tall so he can meet people at closer to eye level, a useful position when your business is politics.

The local superintendent in charge of the district — a person holding a potentially useful position that is required by state law but that in New York City has become as vestigial as a tailbone — had virtually no authority to control, supervise or remove the principal.

Assistant coach Paul Farbrace, asked to take charge for the two Tests against New Zealand, finds himself in a useful position.