Position Quotes

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We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA. — Bob Graham
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the… — Tobias Wolff
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed… — Edward Grey
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of… — Henry Bessemer
Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real… — Jim Evans
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high… — Robert Dale Owen
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to… — Pieter Zeeman
In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being… — James Longstreet
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field… — Wilhelm Ostwald
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had… — Leonard Woodcock
But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people… — Rory Bremner
Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically… — John W. Snow
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. — Federica Montseny
There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to… — Federica Montseny
I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had… — Umberto Guidoni
In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm,… — Umberto Guidoni
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the… — Douglass North
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and… — Philip Gibbs
I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is… — Tony Greig

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