Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

The would-be assassin had his position figured pretty close.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

It forced us to fix the responsibility for the position in which all medical commentators had been placed.

Prevot had said that the searchlights would be bounced off the clouds at 2230 hours, `` which gives us time to get settled in position ''.

He could also hear the stream which he had seen from his position.

Harry Hawk had not shifted position, but he at last lowered his arm.

`` I'm General Burnside's horse, upside down '', Arlene said, sort of gaspingly, for her: even she had to breathe kind of funny when she was in that position.

As an example of the interpretation of an arrow in the figure which exceeds four months in shaft length in conjunction with its position in the figure: girl 2 had a delayed Onset and further delayed Completion.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

The P.D.I. and later the Popular Movement protected the Istiqlal's `` privileged position '' until the fall of Balafrej, and then the Istiqlal used the same argument, which it had previously ignored, against the pro-U.N.F.P. tendencies of the Ibrahim government.

The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men, armed with Russian machine guns, attacked the position held by Chandler's men.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

The result is that the State Department's perpetual position before Congress is the resigned pose of the whipping boy who expects to be kicked whenever the master has had a dyspeptic outing with his wife.

An only child, he had done all the things that young men do who have been born to money and social position until his father double-crossed him by dying broke.

A group of young men influenced by him enrolled in Lane Theological Seminary and had to leave because of their open anti-slavery position.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

Abnormal pressure, applied over a period of time, produces a change in the bony deposit, so a tooth functions normally in the new position into which it has been guided.

Susie's teeth have now been guided into a desirable new position.

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

The systematic position of the order Agnostida within the class Trilobita remains uncertain, and there has been continuing debate whether they are trilobites or a stem group.

Although it had at first been somewhat established in many colonies, in 1861 it was ruled that, except where specifically established, the Church of England had just the same legal position as any other church.

Though the ceremony installs the new abbot into a position of legal authority, it does not confer further sacramental authority-it is not a further degree of Holy Orders ( although some abbots have been ordained to the episcopacy ).

Astrometry has also been used to support claims of extrasolar planet detection by measuring the displacement the proposed planets cause in their parent star's apparent position on the sky, due to their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

After the separation of the two offices the position of Astronomer Royal has been largely honorary, though he remains available to advise the Sovereign on astronomical and related scientific matters, and the office is of great prestige.

In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.

It has been stated above that aberration causes a displacement of the apparent position of an object from its true position.

On the positive side, recent Federal action has largely undermined the legal sanction so long enjoyed by the segregationist position ; ;

Jadwiga's death undermined Jogaila's position as King of Poland, but he managed to retain the throne until his death 35 years later.

John's position was undermined by Walter's relative popularity and by the news that Richard had married whilst in Cyprus, which presented the possibility that Richard would have legitimate children and heirs.

John's position in France was considerably strengthened by the victory at Mirebeau, but John's treatment of his new prisoners and of his ally, William de Roches, quickly undermined these gains.

His reputation for ruthlessness further undermined the king's position.

Later Boleslav III undermined his own position by ordering a massacre of his leading nobles, the Vršovci, at Vyšehrad.

By these wars, the dominant position of the Greeks was undermined even more quickly than would otherwise have been the case.

English peace talks with Spain behind Leicester's back, which had started within days after he had left England, undermined his position further.

Eventually the standardization on Ethernet for connectivity and the ubiquity of PostScript undermined the unique position of Apple ’ s printers: Macintosh computers functioned equally well with any Postscript printer.

This unpopular concession undermined his position, and by March 914 Zoe Karbonopsina overthrew Nicholas and replaced him as foremost regent.

Napoleon's position was further undermined during the 1860s by his failures in foreign policy.

The attitude of Bismarck, who, in conjunction with the Russian and Austrian governments, forbade him to punish the leaders of the military conspiracy, also undermined Alexander's position.

When Michael III started to favor another courtier, Basiliskian, Basil decided that his position was being undermined.

This led to the humiliating Affair of Fielding and Bylandt on 31 December 1779, which enraged Dutch public opinion and further undermined the position of the stadtholder.

Continued pressure from Edward undermined Godwin's position, and the earl and his family fled England in 1051.

Influential magnate coalitions headed by Carrick, having undermined the king's position, manipulated the Council of November 1384 to effectively oust Robert II from any real power.

The result was that towards the end of the war Rupert's position at court was increasingly undermined by his enemies.

Although a Generalissimus, with supreme authority over the entire Austrian army, Charles's position was constantly undermined by his Imperial brother and the war party at the Court, who were corresponding directly on military matters with his Chief of Staff, General Major Wimpffen and some of the Corps commanders.

The entire strategic position, which had been the foundation of the U-Boat war since June 1940 had been undermined.

A number of post-processualists, such as Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley and Peter Ucko, undermined " archaeology's claims to be an authoritative source of knowledge about the past ", thereby " encourag people to question and resist all forms of authority … This position was hailed by its supporters as democratizing archaeology and purging it … of elitist pretensions ".

On 6 October 1497, John conquered Sweden during a short and effective military campaign, defeating Sten Sture at the Battle of Rotebro after having undermined his position by winning over most of the Swedish nobility.

This discovery seriously undermined Vézelay's position as the main shrine of Magdalen in Europe.

It is through this clause and his position as Commander in Chief of the Spanish Armed Forces that King Juan Carlos undermined the attempted 23-F military coup in 1981.

The approach undermined the psychoanalytic position of neutrality, in which the analyst is a blank screen onto which the patient is supposed to project his feelings and neuroses.