Sentence examples for war of position from inspiring English sources

This, in the strategists' language, was a war of position.

Yet these are just early skirmishes in a wider intellectual war of position.

They were as insubordinate as Frankenstein's monster, but they had waged a more subtle campaign, a war of position more effective by far.

Republican and Democrats have been involved in a war of position over cuts to social entitlements and tax reform for the last two years.

If this is indeed a war, it is as much a "war of position" to retain the moral high ground and sustain the broadest base of political support as it is a "war of manoeuvre" to eliminate the enemy.

But Saudi Arabia's intervention in the conflict has also turned what had been a cold war – a war of position and influence within the region – into a hot war with international repercussions.

In short, it was a low-level war of positioning.

For now, a ceaseless war of positions goes on in Somalia, punctuated by the odd Shabbab suicide bombing or renewed bout of fighting.

Instead it is replaced by the constant policing and bickering in a war of positions based on smaller and smaller identities.

But its outlines were decided in the first few weeks, when the French held the Germans on the Marne, just short of Paris, and what began as a war of movement crumpled into a war of positions, punctuated by wild and devastating battles that contributed little except more shambles, ruins and slaughter.

With Lynch's claim, BN seems to have forced Amazon into a war of positioning.