Position in sentence

4310 examples of Position in a sentence

You're one of the few people in a position to really swing the debate.

When we learn that astronomers of the far future may not have enough information to figure things out, the natural question is, maybe we're already in that position and certain deep, critical features of the universe already have escaped our ability to understand because of how cosmology evolves.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

You can see the little pink cursor moving along, representing our position.

This was right about the time that I was offered a position here at Berkeley.

GS: You put me in a unique position, Chris.

And I think we see this tremendous variation because it's a really effective solution to a very basic biological problem, and that is getting sperm in a position to meet up with eggs and form zygotes. Now the penis isn't actually required for internal fertiliztion, but when internal fertilization evolves, penises often follow.

It happens to some of our phyletic cousins, because if you're a monkey, and you look at another monkey, and that monkey has a higher hierarchy position than you, and that is considered to be a signal or threat, well, you are not going to be alive for long.

So you have two choices then: Either you bring the people from India into the developed world to take positions in the next step of the ladder — immigration — or you say, there's so many people in the bottom step of the ladder waiting to take the next position in India, why don't we move the next step to India?

I can adjust its position like this, and rotate, and it freely moves in this new position.

This is low speed, low wind speed, and the maneuverability is very increased, and here I'm going to do a small jibe, and look at the position of the sail.

What's happening is that, because the boat changes shape, the position of the front sail and the main sail are different to the wind.

So I made a more interactive version, and the way I did that is I used their position in time in the lecture to place these stars into 3D space, and with some custom software and a Kinect, I can walk right into the lecture.

So ... (Laughter) So I take it into the start position, and then I press the read button.

So we exert control over the form by specifying the position of where we're making the fold, but essentially you're looking at a folded cube.

And the architect is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

So I was thinking of a story where, if I'm in this position, who could be there looking at him?

And as an example, I want to give you Amos, a male that I knew who was a young male and he was alpha male, he was very popular, but he got sick and he lost his position because, you know, chimpanzee males they can spot from a mile away if you are weak and they went for him, and he lost his position, and then he got sicker and sicker until at some point we had to isolate him.

He was loved and respected, and everyone was taking care of him, and this is not always how it goes, because some males don't end so well when they lose their position.

The second cost is that everyone wants your position.

Alpha male position is a very important position, and everyone wants to take it from you, and so you constantly have to watch your back.

And what you see here is a graph where you see that the lower ranking the male baboon is, the higher is his cortisol level in the feces, but the alpha male, as you see, has just as high a level as the lowest-ranking males, and so you may think that being alpha male is nice and dandy and is wonderful, but it's actually a very stressful position, and we can demonstrate that physiologically.

They don't do it just for the group, because it also stabilizes their position.

The more popular a male becomes as alpha male and the more the rest of them respects them and looks up to them, the better their position is defended in case it's going to be challenged by somebody else, because then, of course, the whole group is going to support that male because they want to keep a leader who is good for them.

And when bullies lose their position, they may end up in a very bad situation there.

And so I don't want to minimize the position of alpha females in the chimpanzee group.

Generally, it's a female who is at the top of the community, and we know much less about how this is done and how they get to that position, and what they do with it, because we know much less about bonobos in general.

From the sound, we can actually track the vocal fold position as it vibrates, and just as the limbs are affected in Parkinson's, so too are the vocal organs.

And I'm very proud and happy to be in that role because it is a fascinating position to be in.

And if some community member is in this organizing position in every area after every disaster, these tools should exist.

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