Sentences with phrase «held in a compromised position»

Cuthbert being held in compromising positions...

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The vested interests in the debate over shopping hours are holding firm to their positions, making compromise difficult.

What the editorial does not point out, however, is that the archbishop who proposed and saw through that compromise was none other than William J. Levada, now prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith — the number - two position in the Vatican, and the same position held by Ratzinger when the San Francisco compromise was reached.

Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).

(The purpose of not revealing these positions is to ensure that the assisted negotiations may be treated as occurring on a without prejudice basis, freeing the parties to propose compromises for the sake of settlement that they will not be held to in the event the matter must proceed to trial.)

The majority of Court held the procedure provided for resulted in the position of the Federal Court Judge not being an independent one but rather «a position equivalent to that of a ministerial adviser» [43] and that this compromised «public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary as institution or in the capacity of the individual judge to perform his or her judicial functions with integrity».