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How to use the word positions in a Sentence? Page #24

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We've been a really, really strong takeover target now for the thirteen years I've been at Meggitt, lots of people want to be aerospace, lots of people want to have strong aftermarket positions. It's no surprise that the odd rumour pops up.

Chief Executive Stephen Young

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When we become harsh with each other and forget our humanity then we end up in these stand-off positions.

England Bishop Trevor Willmott

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've become an increasingly harsh world, and when we become harsh with each other and forget our humanity then we end up in these stand-off positions.

Trevor Willmott

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8 years ago

It's the second biggest peak of the quarterly earnings season. Investors want to see the outcomes before they take positions.

Hikaru Sato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

HellermannTyton positions Delphi to provide customers with an even broader portfolio of highly engineered and customized connection systems and cable management solutions.

Delphi Chief Executive Kevin Clark

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What the emperor says is based on his own responsibility as head of state and on his own experience, this does not necessarily need to be consistent with what the prime minister says as head of the administration. Their positions are different.

The LDP Hagiuda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The (Maidan) revolution was interrupted by the aggression (in the east) and the patriots left Maidan and went to the east to protect Ukraine, only 10 percent of people in positions of power are new; the rest are all the same, pursuing the same schemes they always did.

Serhiy Melnychuk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Instead of jumping in to buy stocks, investors liquidated their positions and took to the sidelines when they saw not much room on the upside.

Alex Wong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Just like investors unwind their positions in the dollar and commodities, they avoid all risky assets including stocks.

Nobuhiko Kuramochi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I heard a candidate complain the other day that, you know, 'my positions' -- meaning that candidate's positions -- 'on comments I made about entitlement reform are being misconstrued by the press.' Well, it's much harder to be misconstrued by the press if you're specific, if you continue to speak in generalities, then you're going to have other people interpret what you mean.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My job as a human being is to treat everybody with dignity or respect — period, stop, full stop, no qualification to that, do I have to agree with their positions on issues or how they see America? Of course not.

Rick Santorum

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I may not even vote because Hillary is the only decent Democrat, i don’t really like Hillary. She sways positions too easily.

Beth Grimes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The regime has collapsed. It could not protect the city and its continuation has become symbolic in limited positions only.

The YPG Xelil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors liquidated their positions as the GDP data failed to impress, while domestic consumption showed no sign of improvement.

Steven Leung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors liquidated their positions as the GDP data failed to impress.

Steven Leung

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8 years ago

Investors liquidated their positions as the GDP data failed to impress while domestic consumption showed no sign of improvement.

Steven Leung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors were awaiting further hints for direction and anticipating new stimulus from the government, they liquidated their positions as the GDP data failed to impress while domestic consumption showed no sign of improvement.

Steven Leung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People are not taking any aggressive positions ahead of Yellen. Some people are buying the dollar on dips.

Kaneo Ogino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors have calmed down quite a lot as the market has stabilized and people have started to build up their long positions little by little as trading activity normalized.

Alfred Chan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was playing a little bit longer this morning and we got the wind as well, the pin positions were a little trickier.

Jane Park

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

Ari Fleischer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Folks who do not like guns is fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9% of those people obey the law, i want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With liquidity thin and the Greek referendum coming up, not many would want to take large positions going into the weekend. The U.S. jobs report has taken the wind out of the sails for the dollar for the time being.

Alvin Tan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If a 'no' vote prevails, we now think that 'Grexit' will become very likely, so for now we are holding our small positions, we are keeping our long dollar and bund positions which are clearly positive contributors to the performance today.

Fabrizio Biondo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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