sition

It is hard to argue with his propo sition that the powerful emotional saliency moral issues have for us, and their connection to serious matters of social organization and conflict—sex, territory, possessions, reciprocity, kinship—point to a hard-wired evolutionary adaptation of group-dwelling animals.

Still Red in Tooth and Claw Stephen Budiansky 2011

It's easy to forget the vehemence of the oppo-sition.

Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale Robert McCrum 2010

The port officials won't question it unless the alarm is already out, and my guess is that Purple will try to make his coup secretly until all oppo - sition has been eliminated.

Here There Are Monsters 2010

She had known of Tania's designs on Bane from the outset, but allied with the Adverse Adepts as she had been, she had not been in a po - sition to protest.

Here There Are Monsters 2010

You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated po - sition, access the vast banks of corporate memory.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

The daughter testified in a depo sition that other Providian employees used the name Martha Kunkle when signing affidavits.

Dead Soul Is a Debt Collector Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2010

"Unlike you gen'lemen, I have no public po-sition to protect," says he.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Where in the world is the Democratic Party going to go on this issue because it seems clear to me -- and I will predict right now, your party, your presidential candidate, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are going to have to change their sition on this immediately because American working men and women and their families are getting murdered by this.

CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2008 2008

The reading here adopted I owe to Dr. Arnold Hug, os me ponous auton elattous ton sition gignesthai.

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

Jeronymo, at that time of his life, ill-brooked oppo-sition in any pursuit his heart was engaged in.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006