Sentence examples for won position from inspiring English sources

Such a won position is not necessarily one leading to immediate checkmate but one with a prohibitively large advantage of material for White.

To be like Charlemagne, therefore, and to clothe his newly won position in a traditional and time-honoured dignity, he accepted the imperial crown and anointment from Pope John XII in Rome in 962.

Meanwhile, the newly won position at Sheikh Hasan on the Ottoman right flank was consolidated.

Bill de Blasio won, positioning himself as the mayor who will bring progressivism back to New York City.

The party won positions on local boards such as education and finance.

Liberal reformists have won positions in government and achieved a leadership role in some of the largest Saudi media companies.

Following these initial successes, British forces engaged in a series of small-scale operations to consolidate the newly won positions.

That should be a winning position.

She suffers when she gets into a winning position.

They have a sniff of a winning position now.

And it's left Australia in a winning position.