Sentence examples for was in a poor position from inspiring English sources

United was in a poor position to withstand a strike because many customers were already seething over its many flight cancellations and delays in recent months.

He woked for the circus briefly, went to Wall St. for a few years, and then came back to the circus, to help his Uncle John - the circus was in a poor position financially after the 1929 crash.

Landis had hoped that the large Cardinal farm system would become economically unfeasible; when it proved successful for the Cardinals, he had tolerated it for several years and was in a poor position to abolish it.

The prison officer in charge of the Centre saw his colleagues running from the direction of the chapel, but due to the presence of scaffolding he was in a poor position to view the upper levels, and mistakenly assumed he saw prisoners running from the chapel.

There Giffard found that the infant was in a poor position for birth and that 'the Woman's Throws were short, and she could not assist as she ought, because she labour'd under an Asthma and shortness of breath; nor could she bear down so long as she ought to have done'.

He is in a poor position to suggest this.

Foreign health insurers, lacking contracts with providers, would be in a poor position to compete with domestic insurers in the age of managed care.

Moreover, the United States is in a poor position to criticize Saudi support of its positions in Iraq and the Arab-Israeli peace process.

But if this is the case they are unlikely to be recruiting at all and therefore may be in a poor position to react to increases in demand.

The Giants are in a poor position to pursue free agents in the open market, and the team has historically been conservative about signing big-name veterans.

Thus, the hospital is in a poor position to protect itself by inquiring about or testing the devices, pressuring the manufacturer to promote product safety or selling a different pacemaker which is not defective.