U.S.officials say they are in a better position to mediate and press for the resolution of difficult issues while the United States has a sizable military force in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

"I do not think we are there yet,". "I would hope that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but there has to be one first.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"So we are only now beginning to be in a position to have the assets in place and the strategy or the military approach in place to begin to implement the strategy and this is going to take some time,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

U.S.officials say they are in a better position to mediate and press for the resolution of difficult issues, and to ease tensions between the Iraqi Army and the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, while the United States has a sizable military force in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"Naturally as a finance minister my advise to the governor of RBI would be that if you are in a position keeping in view the availability of the foreign exchange you buy that , and from that perspective it has been bought,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07