Example collocations logo

Positions in sentence

1222 examples of Positions in a sentence

Austria has dealt with the issue best, according to the SGI study: only 8.1% of temporary employees surveyed had taken temporary work because they could not find permanent positions.
In Spain and Cyprus, more than 90% of people in temporary positions cannot find permanent employment.
But while Royal has been careful to placate her socialist base, she has also talked about the need for market reforms in the French economy, and taken some foreign policy positions on Iran and Turkey that are closer to the American view than are Sarkozy’s.
The government monitors what the private sector pays for a wide range of skills, positions, and tasks, and it attempts to maintain public employees’ salaries at no less than 75% of that level.
While simultaneous interpreters – who occupy a high-paid profession – may scoff at the notion that machines will threaten their positions any time soon, the success of machine learning in highly complex strategic games like Go suggests that machines’ ability to learn should not be underestimated.
They also hold senior congressional staff positions.
Some people have suggested that the theoretical work on information imperfections recognized by the Nobel committee is unrelated to the policy positions I took at the World Bank on East Asia, on Russia, or development.
While scores have lost their positions and others have been imprisoned, most are briefly detained and then allowed to find other jobs in China’s burgeoning civil society.
As it is, the ECB and the European Commission are de facto supporting the positions of populist governments in Eastern Europe that are already spending the funds they hope to get in the future from the EU.
China immediately protested, first by canceling a joint China-Vietnam security meeting, and then by reportedly threatening military action against Vietnamese positions in the Spratly Islands.
Both systems held relatively firmly together, though the glue that bound them was different, and both attempted to strengthen their positions throughout the world.
But if its first occupant is not a household name, the presidency will be doomed as just another of the European Union’s confusing plethora of worthy senior positions that are neither valued nor understood outside Brussels.
The second is the politics of detail, where the new foreign policy chief’s role is to create a single EU stance on the wide range of issues about which European governments still have wildly different national positions.
Last week, Turkish fighter jets bombed positions that the Kurds had recently captured from ISIS.
It also includes leaks that genuinely prejudice intelligence methods and military operational effectiveness; expose exploratory positions in peace negotiations (invariably helping only spoilers); or disclose bottom lines in trade talks.
And while some of the coalition’s popularity is due to support for unattractive policy positions – namely, the ruling parties’ anti-immigrant stance and confrontation with the EU – it also reflects voters’ desire for a modernized welfare state.
A strengthening of the IMF was agreed after the Asian crisis in the 1990’s, and the G-7 summit in Cologne in 1999 mandated the Fund to play a strong surveillance role to ensure greater transparency and encourage early adjustment by countries with unsustainable balance-of-payments positions.
Moreover, the IMF has not succeeded in convincing countries to pursue macroeconomic policies consistent with sustainable current-account positions.
And by appealing to the WTO, it positions itself as a champion of free and open trade.
The gender gap in enrollment in both secondary and higher education is very small; and women’s access to elite positions in law, medicine, and the civil service has increased considerably in recent years.
It could, for example, split full-time jobs into multiple part-time positions, and offer incentives for workers to reduce their hours.
American women hold less than 15% of executive-level positions in Fortune 500 companies and 62% of minimum-wage jobs.
Whatever the two sides’ competitive positions, Sino-American cooperation on issues like trade, financial stability, energy security, climate change, and pandemics will benefit both countries.
In the eurozone, imbalances in competitiveness and fiscal positions – which were not noted during the perfunctory check, based on formal criteria, that was conducted before approving new members – led to a protracted economic crisis.
For economies already constrained by weakened fiscal positions, trade-induced upheavals would be costly.
First, governments must consolidate their fiscal positions to reduce current-account deficits and lower external debt.
With so little political and ideological baggage, Trump is not bound to specific positions on most policy issues, whether domestic or foreign.
Instead, they have followed the path of expedience, their positions depending on the relative clout and stridency of their societies’ Jewish or Arab communities, and on urging from Washington or from the so-called ALBA bloc of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
In addition to a new president and premier, other members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo have been named and a vast array of ministerial positions are beingfilled.
Brazilian officials know that they can achieve this goal only by acting independently – but without diverging too far from the positions of the current permanent members.
BackNext