The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

Suppose, he says, that the tables were turned, and we were in the Soviets' position: `` There would be more than 2,000 modern Soviet fighters, all better than ours, stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean.

This new position, however, gave the ropers a better chance.

Three more draws, the last agreed by Karpov in a clearly better position, closed the match, as he thus prevailed + 3 − 2

It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.

The Baltic island of Gotland was also in a better strategic position for Russian-Byzantine trade, and was gaining eminence as a mercantile stronghold.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

Tito's position on Albania was that it was too weak to stand on its own and that it would do better as a part of Yugoslavia.

In the first two series Mike's position is constantly under threat from senior reporter Brooke Vandenberg, who has a better press profile, but by the last series he has been cemented as one of the network's most valuable stars and considerably more effort is made to pander to his whims.

The White Army controlled the area to the north, which was predominantly agrarian with small or medium-sized farms and tenant farmers, and where crofters were few, or held a better social position than in the south.

All trying to better position themselves in a way to acquire a higher status within the Company, which in turn, would carry more personal profit ; but sought after such goals in a meaningless ineffective lazy manner, mixed with a sense that they were all merely waiting, while trying to stay out of harm's way.

However, should a player cross the zone in an attempt to gain an advantage ( e. g., better position ) their team cedes the ball.

These characteristics make Hall effect devices better for position sensing than alternative means such as optical and electromechanical sensing.

The main disadvantage of Gamines is that the player is not in position to give his best performance since he is likely to remain out for the better part of the match until an Iona is scored.

He used the next two years of truce to get in a better position.

The role of phytoplankton is better understood due to their critical position as the most numerous primary producers on Earth.

The primary advantage held by a player in late position is that he will have more information with which to make better decisions than players in early position, who will have to act first, without the benefit of this extra information.

For the better part of ten years, the show has shared the number one position with Coronation Street, with varying degrees of difference between the two.

These systems use small nylon bags of lead shot pellets which are distributed throughout the BCD, allowing a diver to gain a better overall weight distribution leading to a more horizontal position in the water.

From a poor defensive position on the baseline, the lob can be used as either an offensive or defensive weapon, hitting the ball high and deep into the opponent's court to either enable the lobber to get into better defensive position or to win the point outright by hitting it over the opponent's head.

In 2004, UCCB undertook several studies on how to better position the institution locally, regionally and nationally.

He started to reach for his gun, but apparently thought better of it.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??

Is the world better for having this idea thrust upon it??

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

After casting about for a way of describing this spirit, we decided that it would be better to use Mr. Lyford's introduction as an illustration.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.

During 1598 and 1599 he made `` manye Guiftes of myne owne provision bestowed uppon Cowrtiers & others for the better effectinge of our suites in hande ''.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

The man is right, and at this time, indications are that these three are ready for better seasons.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

While `` better late than never '' may have certain merits, the posthumous award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the late Dag Hammarskjold strikes me as less than a satisfactory expression of appreciation.

Hanging the responsible officials would not abolish the government, but would emphasize its accountability for the lives of its individual citizens, which would certainly alter it, and definitely for the better.

It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.