Example sentences of "its position " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its position on abortion itself was hardly ambiguous : the minutes of the Assembly meeting for 1982 point out ‘ [ the Assembly 's ] opposition to abortion on demand for purely social reasons , or as a means of birth control … [ and ] that in exceptional circumstances , where medical abortion might be necessary , the most stringent safeguards should be provided to prevent abuse ’ ( Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930–86 , General Assembly ( 1982 ) , p. 61 ) . |
| 2 | This and its position , perched on steep ground yet effectively sheltered by the hillside behind , make it one of Lakeland 's finest climbing crags . |
| 3 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |
| 4 | If it was , it would jeopardise its position as the gateway to China . ’ |
| 5 | Hammersmith has been prevented from alleviating its position because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Environment Secretary , blocked further transactions . |
| 6 | If that happens , the logic behind the Deloitte strategy will have disappeared and some in the profession are predicting that Deloitte US may have to admit defeat and reconsider its position . |
| 7 | In addition , the last radio reports purportedly from the Rose-Noelle had been received on 6 and 9 June — days after its capsize — the latter giving its position as near the Kermadec islands , en route to Tonga and 620 miles north of Auckland . |
| 8 | HAWKER SIDDELEY yesterday strengthened its position in the European electric motors business by agreeing to purchase GEC Alsthom 's electromotors division in a deal worth between £35m and £40m . |
| 9 | Dr Alan Watkins , Hawker Siddeley 's chief executive , said the deal with GEC Alsthom would re-inforce its position in the fiercely competitive UK market and enable it to achieve greater exports than the two companies had separately . |
| 10 | Privately , MPs with divided views on Mr Lawson 's chosen course agreed that the Government was effectively boxed-in to its position , and now had to tough it out . |
| 11 | Under the chairmanship of Juan Trippe PAA had rapidly increased its position in the 1930s , enjoying a monopoly on US flights across the Pacific to Japan and China , into Latin America , and over to Britain . |
| 12 | The USA held to its position of open airways , with an international body having only a consultative role ; but it withheld the right for airlines to operate from any American point . |
| 13 | The State for Engels and Marx was as we saw , a tool by which the dominant class maintained its position . |
| 14 | The patrol moves quietly from its position of all-round defence . |
| 15 | Its path is plotted on our star map , with its position marked every fifth morning . |
| 16 | Its path is plotted on our star map , with its position marked every fifth morning . |
| 17 | The minority which voted for a ‘ sovereign party within a renewed Soviet Communist party ’ arranged to meet last night to consider its position . |
| 18 | It had not been able to clarify its position on vital issues such as Punjab violence and communalism . |
| 19 | They come not a moment too soon , if Switzerland is to preserve its position as a front-ranking international financial centre . |
| 20 | And , above all the working class acquired for itself a political party , the Labour Party , to improve its position . |
| 21 | Between 1924 and 1929 , when out of office , the Labour Party clearly strengthened its position . |
| 22 | Was it because its parliamentary majority prevented any real possibility of its position being threatened ? |
| 23 | Alternatively , was it due to the fact that the Labour did not mount an effective campaign against its position ? |
| 24 | Ignoring the foundation of the European Economic Community until it was too late to join on favourable terms , Britain lost its position as a first-class trading power without even noticing . |
| 25 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |
| 26 | The young horse quickly learns its position in society and gains acceptance from the other members of the herd as a whole . |
| 27 | They were not then a class which had consolidated its position through marriage and inheritance : the combination of their own practice and of national policy made it unlikely that they would ever be able to do so . |
| 28 | Its position relative to E affects only the size of the projection . |
| 29 | It possesses the potential to fall by virtue of its position . |
| 30 | Clydesdale will discuss the situation ‘ shortly ’ and Girobank is ‘ reviewing ’ its position . |