If someone wants to know your position on things, better they get it directly from you not from those who claim to speak for you. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Simply by monitoring the data generated by small electric motors within the rotating wheels, the system knows the positions of the wheels and the forces applied by the drive motors. (sciencedaily.com)
They did not know their position in the hierarchy, but were tasked with determining their position based on how others were communicating with them. (aaas.org)