Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Mr. Trump's position has been clear from the beginning: He's under audit. When the audit is completed, he'll release his returns.
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.
I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.
When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.
The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I've said before, is something I'm working on.
I always said my favorite position was company commander in the Paratroop Brigade.
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
