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01. What [position] does your daughter play on her baseball team?
02. Many people say that playing goalie is the most difficult [position] in hockey.
03. I must have slept in a strange [position] last night because I woke up with a really sore neck.
04. The [position] of the ship carrying the illegal immigrants is not yet known, but authorities believe it is near the coast of Washington State.
05. The [position] of the oil tanker in trouble off the coast of Alaska was reported to the Coast Guard by a passing plane.
06. Working as an artist's model is hard work, especially when you are posed in an uncomfortable [position] for long periods of time.
07. We [positioned] the plants on our balcony so that they would hang over the railings.
08. Sarah Brown once observed that only God is in a [position] to look down on anyone.
09. Certain parrots sleep hanging upside down, a [position] which helps to prevent recognition by predators.
10. The young couple tried a different sexual [position] every night for the first couple of weeks after they got married.
11. In El Salvador, males are expected to rise from a seated [position] whenever a woman enters a room.
12. In some universities in Ukraine, there are as many as 20 applicants per available [position].
13. Tobacco leaves are graded by factors such as color, size, and [position] on the stem because lower leaves have less nicotine.
14. Someone once joked that the most dangerous [position] in which to sleep is with your feet on your office desk.
15. In October of 1973, Egypt and Syria launched attacks on Israeli [positions], signaling the start of the Yom Kippur war.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • position — [ pozisjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1265; lat. positio, de ponere « poser » I ♦ 1 ♦ Manière dont une chose, une personne est posée, placée, située; lieu où elle est placée. ⇒ disposition, emplacement. Position horizontale, verticale, inclinée (⇒ inclinaison) .… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Position — Po*si tion, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. ?) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v.,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Position — may refer to:* A location in a coordinate system, usually in two or more dimensions; the science of position and its generalizations is topology * Body position (proprioception), the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body …   Wikipedia

  • Position — (lat. positio ‚Lage, Stellung‘) bezeichnet: die Lage eines Punktes im Raum, siehe Koordinatensystem und Ortsbestimmung Soziale Position, den Status einer Person in sozialen Beziehungen Meinung, eine subjektive Ansicht bzw. einen Standpunkt den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Position — Po*si tion, v. t. To indicate the position of; to place. [R.] Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • position — I (business status) noun appointment, assignment, avocation, business, calling, career, concern, duty, echelon, employment, function, incumbency, job, line of business, line of work, means of livelihood, occupation, office, post, practice,… …   Law dictionary

  • Position en œuf — ● Position en œuf à skis, position aérodynamique de recherche de vitesse, skis parallèles, écartés, genoux fléchis, buste incliné en avant …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • PositioN — est un manga de Hitoshi Ashinano en un volume sorti en 1999. Tout comme Yokohama kaidashi kikou (la création majeure de cet auteur), ce manga se déroule dans un univers calme et paisible, racontant des tranches de vie de ses personnages. v · …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Position — (v. lat.), 1) Stellung im Allgemeinen; 2) Stellung von Truppen in Rücksicht auf einen Kriegszweck; 3) der Terrainabschnitt, welcher der Vertheidigung Vortheil gewährt. Von einer guten P. wird gefordert: Fronthinderniß, welches den Angriff auf… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Position — (lat.), Stellung, Stand, Lage, z. B. eines Punktes auf dem Globus nach Länge und Breite, eines Gestirns an der scheinbaren Himmelskugel (daher Positionsbestimmungen); im Kriegswesen ein zum Gefecht ausgesuchter Geländeabschnitt, der künstlich, z …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Position — (lat.), Stellung, Lage; in der Prosodie Verlängerung eines kurzen Vokals durch zwei oder mehr darauf folgende Konsonanten; auch Bejahung, im Gegensatz von Negation. Positionsartillerie, s. Artillerie; Positionsbatterie, s. Batterie …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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