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This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Moving as he is into the phase of the campaign which demands conviction of him, he adopts a position that is morally indefensible.
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.
The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.
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.
The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.
`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the `` anti-party group '' nearly liquidated him.
The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.
After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.
Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

position and countered
Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS.
The PIAT had several advantages over other infantry anti-tank weapons of the period, which included a lack of muzzle smoke to reveal the position of the user, and an inexpensive barrel ; however, this was countered by, amongst other things, a difficulty in cocking the weapon, the bruising the user received when firing it, and problems with its penetrative power.
This position is countered by BNP members who claim that their party is increasingly democratic in its nature.
This position is countered by those that assert that members of minorities require specific provisions and rights to ensure that they are not marginalised within society ( for example, bilingual education may be needed to allow linguistic minorities to fully integrate into the school system and hence compete on a level playing field in society ), and that rights for minorities, far from weakening the nation-building project, actually strengthen it ; where members of minorities see that their specific needs and ambitions have been acknowledged and catered for, they will commit themselves more willingly to accepting the legitimacy of the nation and their integration ( as opposed to assimilation ) within it.
"</ BLOCKQUOTE > However, Martin Kramer, who debated Pape on origins of suicide bombing, countered Pape's position that the motivation for suicide attacks is not just strategic logic but also an interpretation of Islam to provide a moral logic.
A shareholder countered with the position that especially the State Street store could be even more successful if converted back to Marshall Field's, citing May 2010 survey results showing that 81 % of Chicago shoppers still preferred Marshall Field's over Macy's while 13 % preferred Macy's over Marshall Field's.
Sivo countered that he had no intention of relinquishing his position, and said that he could be only removed if the party judged him unfit for the post.
Wasmosy countered by offering Oviedo a ministerial position, but soon imprisoned him.
Two laps later he did it, with a time of 1 minute and 30. 946 seconds, but Häkkinen countered in the final minute and took the pole position with 1 minute and 30. 462 seconds, nearly half a second faster than Coulthard.
G. K. Orjonikidze countered Stalin's position that a bourgeious court could give fair trial to a revolutionary leader of the working class.
A further approach potentially open to the government was to take the position that as a ' third party ', not heard by the Court, the ruling did not apply to them ( other sources countered this by pointing out that the FPIM-foundation had represented the government ).
Sivo, however, countered that he had no intention of resigning and said that he could be removed only if the party considered him unfit for the position.
Beckham countered by citing his strong stand in favor of Prohibition, as opposed to McCreary's more moderate position, and by touting his support of a primary election instead of a nominating convention, which he said gave the voters a choice in who would represent them in the Senate.

position and by
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.
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.
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
Through the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as through individual action by every nation in position to help, we must squarely face this titanic challenge.
But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
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.
Where there were none fifteen years ago, several scholars currently are edging their way cautiously towards the acceptance of the `` shore occupied by '' position.
Mr. Brown's invention achieved this and, as a byproduct, formed the cornerstone of Brown & Sharpe's position of leadership in the gear making equipment field which lasted until the 1920's when superceded by other methods.
However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.
The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.
Place mold or paper pattern on rolled clay and cut clay by holding knife in vertical position ( cut more pieces than required for project to make allowance for defects ; ;
It is in Russia's interest that Poland should be strong and powerful, in a position to shut the door of this corridor by her own force.
Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.
it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.
The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.
`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.

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