• To make peace in due course, it might have to abandon its present position.

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  • He appreciated the offer and stayed with the company in his present position.

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  • To be candid, Abubakar cannot last in his present position without jailing or even killing some of the criminals among the ruling elite in Nigeria.

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  • It has varied from its present position by hundreds of metres.

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  • The crossbench peer's calls were backed by Labour's Lord Morris of Aberavon who argued that the present position was "untenable" and "not in the interest of justice".

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  • It is this sort of heaping of contradiction on contradiction that has brought the church to its present position of crisis with people walking away in their droves.

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  • Creative incompetence will achieve the best results if you choose an area of incompetence which does not directly hinder you in carrying out the main duties of your present position.

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  • Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy WIPP, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.

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  • Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy's WIPP site, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.

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  • The expectation thus far - among those who considered the point at all - was that independence would require to be enacted by a Westminster statute, not least because the present position is that the constitution is reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act 1998.

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  • In the aftermath of the computer decontrol fiasco, Mr. Kloske (who was then awaiting Senate confirmation for his present position as Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration) promised to develop an interagency mechanism for eliciting and incorporating the views of technical and intelligence experts throughout the U.S. government with a view to avoiding the sort of problems that arose in the earlier case.

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  • At present the position is losing 2%.

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  • This tells you how much information is present at each position: variable positions contain little information while constant positions contain lots.

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  • The most reverend prelate, Dr Rowan Williams, continued: "At the present moment the position of Christians in the region is more vulnerable than it has been for centuries".

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  • Germany and France usually try to present a common position but that looks less easy this time, with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, making separate speeches this week.

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  • But he told BBC Sport that the club's present head coach would find his position reviewed in the summer.

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  • In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.

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  • The music firms' strongest position, of course, would be to present a united front.

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  • As the Judge recognized, whether or not Repo 105 complied with any particular provision of GAAP does not address the overriding purpose of GAAP, which is to require the issuer to present a fair, complete and accurate picture of its financial position.

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  • "Given his prior access, his expertise as a counter-intelligence specialist, and his clear willingness to betray his position of high trust, Hanssen poses a clear and present danger that he will compromise a additional information of a sensitive and classified nature, " prosecutors said in documents submitted to the court.

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  • At any given position along the molecule, one of these letters must be present.

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  • Present CEO Bob Calleja will stay at the club and take on the position of chief operating officer, focusing on how to develop the club's ground.

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  • The representative of Mali said, had his delegation been present, it would have abstained from the vote, in accordance with the common position of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

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  • Once in the applications view, tapping any icon launches the associated app (or bookmark), while holding any icon lets you move it to another position on the grid (or remove it by pressing a little red X, if present).

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  • Only months ago he emerged from a leave of absence to present at an Apple keynote event, and his passing comes with AAPL continuing to ascend to the dominant position in the consumer electronics market.

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  • "It is our position that it is possible to design legislation that facilitates the plaintiff in a way that does not present any risk to the involuntary death of others, " he said.

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