Collocations withposition
These are words often used in combination withposition.
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administrative position
They receive the same salary as other bureaucrats working in a similar administrative position.
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advantageous position
This obviously left the eldest daughter in a very advantageous position.
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ambiguous position
Parish charities had an ambiguous position in this struggle.
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angular position
Stroboscopically flashed light, triggered by the camshaft angular position, was employed.
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appointed position
This was an appointed position by the mayor.
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approximate position
Their approximate position in the text should be indicated by a note in the margin.
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awkward position
Many adjudicators appreciate their awkward position.
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bargaining position
First, the bargaining position of minority governments has been strengthened.
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better position
A better position, surely, would be to consider the objective probabilities of the unrealized alternatives.
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cabinet position
Evita never held a cabinet position, though she was the de facto head of many ministries.
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changing position
Changing position can relieve it.
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chart position
The disc's twelve tracks were released, and achieved their highest chart position, in 1972 and 1973.
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clerical position
The reverend gentleman who sat in this seat, far from abandoning his clerical position, used it as one of his principal election assets.
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coaching position
In 1994, he moved up to the head coaching position.
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comfortable position
He is in a very comfortable position.
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commanding position
State grain organizations established a commanding position in the grain market.
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competitive position
This indicates their less competitive position in the domestic market.
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conservative position
There is another, more powerful conservative position.
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contradictory position
Neither does the contradictory position of those who fund technical legal assistance give the author a great deal of pause.
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coveted position
That is very important, because the position of the established civil servant is a coveted position.
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crouched position
If you ride in an aggressive, crouched position with full leathers and kit, motorists are not likely to let you in.
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current position
State your current position at your school.
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decision-making position
Collectively, those who reached key decision-making positions were the least interested in putatively scientific methods and held more traditional views of diplomacy informed by an awareness of history.
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default position
Statutes are capable of epistemic guidance because of the default position and because target populations generally have mastered the necessary social and linguistic competences.
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defensible position
The appeal of ex post prioritarianism is illusory, and the closest defensible position is utilitarianism.
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defensive position
I have no need to take up a defensive position.
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desired position
A desired position and force tracking position and force subspace respectively, thus, is guaranteed.
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disadvantaged position
It also reflects the rigidity of gender roles and the disadvantaged position of women in early modern society.
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doctrinal position
He has the basic doctrinal position that all problems in industry should be solved by competition.
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dominant position
And how can all the men in such groups maintain a dominant position?
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editorial position
Despite this, these comments taken as a whole show a clear and consistent editorial position, as we shall see.
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elected position
It is usually an elected position.
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elevated position
Her elevated position on horseback made her visually accessible.
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entrenched position
Crozier's study demonstrates an entrenched position where patterns of conflict are reinforced by power relations, strongly held role expectations, and value systems.
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enviable position
That is an enviable position.
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exact position
The navigator must first determine his exact position.
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exalted position
At the same time, officers and their uniforms attracted reverence among those who could only aspire to this exalted position.
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exposed position
The heath forest was virtually undamaged despite much of it being in an exposed position and adjacent to badly damaged lowland evergreen rain forest.
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extreme position
I will consider the consequences of this extreme position below.
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faculty position
She was the first to hold a faculty position in this new area of pediatrics.
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fallback position
That is the fallback position.
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favourable position
It places the stereohead joints in a situation of symmetric vergence, which is the most favourable position for visual processing and position representation.
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firing position
The soldiers, maintaining the firing position, forced us to retreat.
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fixed position
Imagine we are observing a stream at a fixed position.
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fortified position
It was a rare example of artillery capturing a fortified position without the help of other forces.
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forward position
The forward position is self-financing (requires no current payment).
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full-time position
Once a programmer has a full-time position, there are too many constraints and distraction for principled additional education.
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geographical position
In the geographical position of the settlements this tendency might be visible in an increasingly homogeneous environment, suitable for agriculture.
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high-ranking position
Being a commoner in such a high-ranking position, he caused jealousy among the nobles.
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horizontal position
The robot base has been rotated in a horizontal position.
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ideal position
The ideal position denotes the voter's most preferred policy.
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ideological position
All texts, either implicitly or explicitly, convey an ideological position.
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inferior position
She acknowledges her inferior position by gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference and submissiveness are her best defences at the early stages.
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infield position
Other than this, he played any infield position off the bench.
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influential position
Petitioners recognized the influential position the abbess had obtained as a result of her own patronage of the exiled and impecunious royalists.
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intermediate position
Moreover, it did not matter whether the first-born was being compared with a last-born or with a sibling from an intermediate position.
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key position
The state is expected to occupy a key position in this landscape.
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lateral position
The left lateral position can improve fetal blood -ow by relieving aortocaval compression.
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liberal position
Many, especially those most committed to a more emancipatory liberal position, would not be reconciled.
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locked position
A free-fall or gravity drop system uses gravity to deploy the landing gear into the down and locked position.
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lucrative position
A man can voluntarily retire after 12 years and take on a lucrative position under some great public company.
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managerial position
The questions allowed the participants to address the issues from their managerial position and experience.
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marginal position
Thus, indigenous peoples often referred to a history that had led to their marginal position and to their being shut out of decision-making.
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ministerial position
It is quasi-judicial, because he is entitled to take a wider consideration in his ministerial position.
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moderate position
We are in basic agreement with these arguments and the moderate position both commentaries chart between the poles of radical empiricism and nativism.
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negotiating position
How can this negotiating position be explained?
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neutral position
The lowest classes lie in a practically neutral position (0.49), thus tracing a curvilinear sociolectal profile.
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nucleotide position
Of the 340 nucleotide positions, 218 (64 %) were found to be invariant.
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official position
The liver has the official position of troop leader.
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outfield position
A versatile player, he can play in any outfield position, though prefers a more attacking role.
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paid position
I have been on the health authority for over 20 years and served for a long time before it became a paid position.
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part-time position
Student assistantship is generally a part-time position.
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peak position
Delay time is shown as the peak position of each profile in the stick diagram.
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perilous position
Should another war occur we might find ourselves, at the beginning of it, in a perilous position because of that neglect.
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permanent position
In medical schools, ethics is gradually finding a permanent position, although a lot still needs to be done.
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philosophical position
Political liberalism must stake out a philosophical position that is itself tolerant of other philosophical positions.
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pivotal position
His general exposition of his theory, however, remains comprehensible, its pivotal position within his entire philosophical system clear.
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position of authority
How and why this class came to a position of authority sufficient to dominate politics is never explained.
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position of neutrality
Once we had publicly announced our position of neutrality, we had to act to honor it.
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position of privilege
The lack of knowledge and research on the powerful contributes to mystifying their roles and therefore maintains their position of privilege in society.
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posterior position
These data are consistent with worms in non-corticosteroid-treated, control rats moving to a more posterior position as the infection progressed.
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powerful position
Historically, in international relations, the west held the world's powerful position.
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pre-eminent position
It was restored to its pre-eminent was restored to its pre-eminent position when the monarchy was position when the monarchy was itself restored in 1660.
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precarious position
Those who find themselves in a precarious position.
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precise position
Dashed ammonite-zone and bed boundaries reflect some uncertainty of their precise position in the core.
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preferred position
No one has presented knockdown arguments for their preferred position.
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prestigious position
Only car market owners surpass this prestigious position.
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principled position
It is a principled position, which puts the national economic interest first.
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privileged position
Two aspects of this newly privileged position are examined.
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prominent position
Perhaps it should be raised to a more prominent position.
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prone position
Patients were positioned in either the supine or prone position depending on the type of tumour.
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proper position
A stent in proper position was then implanted.
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relative position
Instead, relative position seems more important.
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respectable position
This is a perfectly respectable position for those who see human life as a mystery that cannot be solved by rational analysis.
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respective position
Responses from each stimulated hexagonal patch were individually computed and are displayed on the respective position in the visual field.
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riding position
Comfort depends on riding position.
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rightful position
By services rendered and sympathy shown, and confidence won, we shall obtain our rightful position, and they, a great desideratum.
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salaried position
She was paid nothing at all for her entire time as provincial fiduciary, since this only became a salaried position in 1940 - the year she stepped down.
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seated position
One of the individuals may have been placed in a seated position against the south wall.
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seating position
The data refer to car occupants as seating position is only identified for these vehicles.
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senior position
This man, who had reached a senior position at his workplace, refused to talk about his past and insisted that his life was beginning anew.
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sitting position
The patient starts from the sitting position.
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socioeconomic position
The third question addressed was whether the association of socioeconomic position with quality of life varies by age.
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spatial position
In a population-based code of spatial position, this will cause non-veridical mapping of the population response vector, thereby accounting for the experienced distortions.
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squatting position
The base sets up in a squatting position a few feet underwater, with the pushers holding her legs and feet.
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standing position
Finally, the stance standing position setting is set.
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starting position
This shows a reliable effect of mental rotation on starting position: starting position was rotated with the triangle.
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stated position
Ex. 36 embodies a related circumstance of public questioning about a stated position.
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stationary position
The vertical axis represents time delay and the horizontal axis shows adjacent radar data while the sensor is held in a stationary position.
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strategic position
Moreover, teachers' trade unions occupy a strategic position in society.
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strong position
He wasn't in a very strong position to help me.
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subordinate position
Women were relegated to a subordinate position in society.
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superior position
But, evidently, the nonpartisan may also use his relatively superior position for purely egoistic interests.
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supervisory position
But with regard to the detailed issues in administrative litigation, the courts seem to have reversed their underdog role by asserting a supervisory position toward the governments.
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supine position
For example, many individuals die while in a supine position.
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teaching position
Deprived of his academic grade, title and teaching position, he remained unemployed until 1994.
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temporary position
I know of the constraints of her temporary position.
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tenured position
Further, institutions have explored various options to influence tenured faculty to forgo their tenured position by providing buyouts, phased retirement, and other arrangements.
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theoretical position
Each theoretical position is now described.
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top position
Moreover, mote frequencies were higher at the bottom and middle plant positions compared with the top position.
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uncomfortable position
The red fox brought him in a very uncomfortable position, to the place where he intended to eat him.
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unenviable position
He recognizes that most decisions are reached in an economic environment that places government in an unenviable position.
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unique position
At the same time, she seems to have held a unique position in the alliance.
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unnatural position
The fifth recognizable skeleton was found flexed, showing a forced unnatural position that implies that some of the soft tissues were partially decayed when the body was reaccommodated.
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unreasonable position
I submit that that is a most unreasonable position.
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upright position
This maintains an adequate cardiac output, thus preserving cerebral perfusion in the upright position.
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vertical position
See text for method of measuring vertical position.
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vulnerable position
The individual is in a very vulnerable position.
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weak position
The weak position in the second foot must be monomoraic.
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word-final position
In prosodic word-final position, deletion is better than retention for all except the low vowels.
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