superior position

collocation in English

meaningsofsuperiorandposition

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superior
adjective
uk
/suːˈpɪə.ri.ər/us
/səˈpɪr.i.ɚ/
better than average or better than other people or things of the ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofsuperiorandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsuperior position

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But, evidently, the nonpartisan may also use his relativelysuperiorpositionfor purely egoistic interests.
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It explicitly links violence to thesuperiorpositionof men.
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No instance was recorded of the femalesuperiorpositionbeing used, while only one man reported use of a sitting position.
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Rulers needed to share power with other nobles while maintaining asuperiorposition, so they created scenes in which other nobles participated in ritual.
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One party is almost always in a greatlysuperiorpositionto the other party.
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The brother who refused to join finds himself in a verysuperiorposition.
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I think that we should seek a new andsuperiorposition.
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Note thesuperiorpositionof the character.
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This circular was approved by others in asuperiorpositionto the gentleman who wrote the circular.
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The mouth is big and has asuperiorposition.
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If, therefore, you are proposing to put certain workmen into asuperiorpositionyou have to consider one or two other things.
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He is in such a neurotic state that he believes his brother who is working is using hissuperiorpositionagainst him.
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Is it supposed that members of that council occupy asuperiorposition, and when they go on an official visit they must go in state?
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Will they not have asuperiorpositionin negotiating with employers or groups of employers with firms that are in the federation?
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He has conceded the point about spent convictions, so how can he put a spent conviction in asuperiorpositionto an acquittal?
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That might have had the effect of unfreezing the position and producing a situation from which we might have got into an altogethersuperiorposition.
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Occasionally the mistress is in asuperiorpositionboth financially and socially to her lover.
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A meta-analysis summarizing the evidence found nosuperiorpositionfor young, healthy males.
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This audacious action unnerved and forced the enemy to abandon a tacticallysuperiorposition.
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The cost advantage is achieved throughsuperiorpositionin relation to the key cost drivers.
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In addition, the heart chamber located in the mostsuperiorpositionis the left atrium.
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The stamens are in two whorls; the ovary is in asuperiorposition.
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Several prescribed powers put the president in asuperiorpositionvis--vis the legislature.
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The ovaries exhibit asuperiorpositionrelative to the sepals and petals.
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In general, using the given name connoted the speaker's authority andsuperiorpositionto the addressee.
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