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You can't smoke in the field because you don't want to give away your position.
So for every picture you see, and there were about 1,800 in this picture, we both had to tape our feet into position every time I clicked the shutter.
And today, this bird still occupies an important, though much less honorable position – on our dinner plates.
What if I was wasting my time and I would never feel comfortable in such an exposed position?
But I approach it all from a more experienced position.
Having had to navigate being in the less powerful position in multiple aspects of their lives, women are often more adept at how to surreptitiously pressure for change against large, powerful actors.
And because of the follower's position, basically, no one can see where they're going.
The numerous belts and harnesses of modern coasters have largely solved this issue, but the passenger’s ever-changing position can make it difficult to determine what needs to be strapped down.
It's a new generation of nuclear plants that are on the drawing boards around the world, and the people who are developing these say we can get them in position to demo by 2025 and to scale by 2030, if you will just let us.
And they position us as the victims of unforeseen and totally unavoidable circumstances.
In this immensity of life and biodiversity, we occupy a rather unremarkable position.
The situation resembles an adversarial game like chess – only here you can’t see the opponent’s position.
And when we studied conservatives and had them make persuasive arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
We don't persuade so much as we rehearse our own reasons for why we believe some sort of political position.
But that won't keep you safe, because simply by connecting to the internet, you are put in an impossible take-it-or-leave-it position.
YNH: Well the good news, with regard to the dangers of nationalism, we are in a much better position than a century ago.
The truth is that my colleagues and I and the parents and other family members who get to experience this special wisdom are in a unique position.
I am known as Captain Organic and that's a philosophical position as well as an aesthetic position.
I work from a similar position.
The old mandate was very simple and very single: if you're in a position of power or authority, you're responsible for your own people and your own tiny slice of territory, and that's it.
Today, I think everybody in a position of power and responsibility has got a dual mandate, which says if you're in a position of power and responsibility, you're responsible for your own people and for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet.
It seemed to be a move to a more moderate position, on the face of it.
I became an expert witness for one of the guards, Sergeant Chip Frederick, and in that position, I had access to the dozen investigative reports.
The math behind the power-law distribution is that whatever's in the nth position is doing about one-nth of whatever's being measured, relative to the person in the first position.
So that puts him in a unique position to be able to relate to and help heal the veterans in his care.
Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father.
David Irving was a writer of historical works, most of them about World War II, and virtually all of those works took the position that the Nazis were really not so bad, and the Allies were really not so good.
Is that a difficult position for you?
CA: People want to position this as an either or, that there are so many desperate things happening on the planet now from climate to poverty to, you know, you pick your issue.
As physicians, Paul and I were in a good position to understand and even accept his diagnosis.
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