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How to use the word positioning in a Sentence?

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They’ve seen a lot of the potential patterns in terms of routes and the way the Russians plan their missile salvos, so they’ve got better at positioning their air defense teams.

Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is a little more interesting now, and also visible tonight and this week, are the close and prominent positioning of Venus and Jupiter in the western sky right after sunset, the astronomical word for this is ‘conjunction.’ These planets will be setting as the moon is rising, so they are only visible for about an hour at sunset, near the western horizon.

Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China appears to be positioning itself to potentially take further steps in the coming days and perhaps over longer time horizons.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's no question that some of this is catering to Donald Trump so that he doesn't stick his nose into these primary campaigns, you don't want him endorsing the other candidate like he did in Ohio and Pennsylvania. That's why most all of the candidates are positioning themselves that way.

Brandon Scholz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my opinion, it was not on correctly… it was resting on his stomach is what it appears in the videos that I've reviewed, and that it was not touching or close to the seat pan and/or in-between his crotch, which should have been the proper positioning of that to ensure that there was no gap between the base of the harness and/or the seat pan itself.

Brian Avery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A rare view inside FoxGoldberg, in a phone interview with Per Smith, provided a rare on-the-record peek inside Fox's political positioning. Per Smith.

Jonah Goldberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Equity prices are likely to be driven by technical positioning this week, as trade enters the final week of the month.

Anderson Alves

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's defeating to put another person on the ventilator, it's defeating to put another person in prone positioning or paralyzing them or watching them get more test tubes. It's defeating to watch health care providers that I care about or Joelle Craft stand at the bedside when someone dies alone. It's also defeating to watch somebody else get put in a body bag.

Joelle Craft

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you take a look at just in everyday life, the financial sectors rely on positioning and timing information for precise banking operations and transactions, financial markets synchronizing all of those operations, our transportation sector for positioning and timing, air, land, sea, and rail all rely on the global positioning system to be able to execute our critical infrastructure.

Matthew Holston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Lebanon's main political parties, including Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, and others, have benefited from the port's ambiguous status and poor governance and accountability structures, political parties have installed loyalists in prominent positions in the port, often positioning them to accrue wealth, siphon off state revenues, smuggle goods, and evade taxes in ways that benefit them or people connected to them.

The HRW report

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A comprehensive strategy in addressing legitimate demands of the government while negotiating or challenging the legality of problematic provisions of the new IT rules would have positioned Twitter in a reasonable light, this haphazard, non-transparent positioning [ by Twitter ] only leads to speculation and zero clarity for the users or observers.

Mishi Choudhary

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most districts that have been taken surround provincial capitals, suggesting that The Taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals once foreign forces are fully withdrawn.

Deborah Lyon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s a combination of a sell-off on the winners of the past months... with the month of May and a ‘nervous’ positioning.

Angelo Meda

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Many positives are in the price of the pound and this is reflected in market positioning as well as FX valuation, there has been little focus on downside risks like the loss of the GBP vaccine advantage in recent weeks, the May 6 Scottish elections, as well as the potential for a renewed weakness of global risk sentiment in May and June because of a renewed spike in UST yields on the back of strong US data.

Valentin Marinov

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Positioning is something that needs be constantly coached.

Paul Stewart

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This forces some of the late dollar-longs out, it doesn’t really change what to expect for Q1 GDP in the U.S. Market positioning is a different story.

Marc Chandler

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Extreme policy remains best explanation for extreme rally off lows in 2020, consensus macro boom in 2021, we expect peak positioning correction in Q1.

Michael Hartnett

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The French defence was determination, but not just that. The French defence was also the result of a lot of technical work about positioning around the ruck, we’re coming out of this game frustrated, we had the keys to the match, but we’re proud.

Fabien Galthie

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Positioning in FX and other asset classes had been biased towards 'risk on', higher equity prices, steeper yield curves and a weaker dollar.  A lot of that positioning is now simply getting walked back and tweaked as we enter the 'autumn crunch'.

Stephen Gallo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As we approach the July 4th holiday, I have directed the deployment and pre-positioning of Rapid Deployment Teams across the country to respond to potential threats to facilities and property, while the Department respects every American's right to protest peacefully, violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated.

Chad Wolf

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is probably more downside in equity prices than there is in bond yields, the bond market is already fairly cautious in its positioning in terms of the view of the world that it has.

Sameer Samana

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We found two out of three patients can avoid a ventilator during the first 24 hours by putting them on oxygen and doing these positioning maneuvers, such as laying them prone on their stomach.

Richard Levitan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Overall the muddy waters in the data pool is unlikely to change market positioning and longtime sterling strength will rely on BoE expectations and trade developments.

Sam Cooper

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The trade war's been tough for Eileen Fisher. Eileen Fisher have been looking at reconsidering Eileen Fisher positioning in China, which makes me sad because Eileen Fisher have been in China [ for more than 15 years ] and Eileen Fisher've done a lot of good work in China.

Eileen Fisher

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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