Position
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
To indicate the position of; to place.
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Position Quotations
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
Ron Paul
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Position Translations
position in Afrikaans is posisie, houding
position in Dutch is houding, stand, positie
position in Finnish is paikka
position in French is position
position in German is Position
position in Italian is posizione, posizione, ente, circostanza, orientare
position in Latin is loco, positus
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