Sentences with phrase «in strange positions»

Now, just a few years later, the company finds itself in the strange position of having to justify that accomplishment — and to rationalize it in order to get people to spend the extra money on its new console.

I thought of myself as a Baptist cessationist (I've never been charismatic), yet I'm in the strange position of having had Jesus come to me in an awesome dream in 1973.

Rodrigues thereby finds himself in a strange position, a priest who prays that his people will be less stalwart in trial.

With Arsenal now having turned from a team of mainly foreign players to being built around a strong core of young British players, the Gunners now find themselves in the strange position of being the main provider of players for the England national team.

but in all seriousness the Seahawks are likely very reluctant to trade him away given hes still got some prime years left and won a super bowl, they are in a strange position but not necessarily in full rebuild mode.

His shock # 60m move to Manchester United left Martial in a strange position, although often impressing with Monaco his development was still, at 19, in its infancy and required careful nurturing.

I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

The hijack left mansion - tax - originator Vince Cable in the strange position of having to decry Labour's «cynical party political games».

Tory sources have been put in the strange position of having to defend Brown, promote Labour and call for greater involvement from trade unions, while taking a step back from the campaign themselves.

Ms Abbott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:» Angela Eagle is in the strange position of wanting to challenge the leadership but not wanting the leader on the ballot.

Josh Brolin is in a strange position right now in that the two top - grossing films over the past month include him as a main character.

«I think agents are in a strange position when it comes to working with indies.

Kratos is different these days, he has a bloodied past after his adventures in Ancient Greece, but now, after the loss of his wife, he finds himself in the strange position of being a lone father.

I found Darkside Chronicles solid, though it's somewhat in a strange position between old school arcade style rail shooters and the innovative action adventure approach of Dead Space Extraction.

Now, after more than 50 years as an enigmatic art world outlier, Sturtevant, who has often felt more of a kinship with French post-structuralist philosophers than with the hot artists of the day, finds that she is in the strange position of being a hot artist herself.

I find myself in the strange position of feeling obliged to defend Sir Howard Hodgkin!

Martin, you put me in a strange position.

The family was under significant stress at the time, stemming from the emotional troubles of their teenage daughter, who was previously «disfellowshipped» leaving the parents in a strange position of being required by their religion to shun their own daughter.

The volume rocker is in a strange position, two - thirds of the way down the right - hand spine — it's not a natural placement for your fingers to reach it quickly if music is blaring out of the phone and you need to turn it down.

Not exact matches

I'm in decent shape, so I was fortunate to be in a position to help people who were having a more difficult time with the course than I. My help was useful for them, but being able to connect to other people, sometimes strangers, with open - heartedness and helpfulness made the entire experience much more rewarding for me too.

When Rasputin's daughter Maria viewed the body, she identified «the strangest thing»: the position of his right arm and hand indicated that Rasputin had succeeded in untying the bonds holding his arms and had died making the sign of the cross!

In the light of Buber's clear statement of this middle position, it is strange to find John Baillie criticizing him for making God «Wholly Other» and too simply Thou and not I. (Baillie, Our Knowledge of God, op.

«But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognized and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillation, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later — that the saviour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.»

But in the strange land, the fact that he is a son is a judgment against him, and when he realizes his position, a grief.

But to hint, suggest, or assert that virtually all criticisms of the exhortation are stupid, or malicious, or pastorally insensitive is a very strange position for the Party of Dialogue in the Church to take.

Not one other Prem manager would pick the strange sides he picks, with players in the wrong positions, no shape, no fight and no hope.

Man City are supposedly looking to replace right back Pablo Zabaleta, however the Manchester club still has former Arsenal man Bacary Sagna and so it would seem strange for Bellerin to go to a side where there is already a consistent player in his position.

Because Mourinho finds it «strange» and «illogical» that the guy is still in position despite no major trophies won for «youngsss» years.

I can't see Wenger pay that for a player like Nzonzi, especially not in January lol his age, position and market value I doubt Wenger would pay more than 20 - 25m for him, but stranger things have happened.

Which is why I found myself in the very strange position of wanting Chelsea to score yesterday and then the even stranger sensation of cheering when the arch villain Diego Costa grabbed a late equaliser.

Alot of individuals blames bellerin for 2 of the goals, however i beg to differ, if by positioning bellerin was in the right position covering his CBs, so therefore the man who should have been doing that job would have been the man infront of Bellerin on that side of that field, many say it was Iwobi, but if you looked it was actually ramsay, second goal was definitely a foul, it was strange that the referee pointed for a penalty when xhaka pushed the young man in his back, with the same offense seen as not a foul.

The Pole was rapidly dropped by Wenger after some strange antics and dodgy performances, but he has regained his respect in Italy and is now lauded as one of the best in his position in Serie A.

strange how people like mediocrity, if you knew I have more reason than many to like and support Wenger but I put Arsenal love before everything and only a fool or a blind can think that Wenger is doing good with Arsenal, I would not be upset if the team was in this position if all the required signing had been done and the team was managed and rotated correctly as no one has sure right to success.It only hurts when the requirements are not dealt correctly and are dealt only with silly excuses.Fools for the fools, some claim to love Arsenal...

It is strange that Giroud has had three seasons as our centre forward and Walcott has only had three or four games in that position and yet the jury is already out on Walcott's ability to play there.

Very strange game especially in the first half and a little bit frustrating at times seeing how we didn't maximize our counter-attacking positions in the game.

I first thought it was a bit strange that Arsene Wenger dropped Olivier Giroud to the bench against Leicester in midweek, and even more surprised that Alexis was moved into the centre - forward position, but Le Boss reckons hat many of his Arsenal team were suffering from fatigue after the Spurs game.

Now, he is no stranger to this position, he played there even for Arsenal in two league cup games although one of them was against Coventry City if I am not mistaken.

Wenger's thinking is strange Chambers is not ready for CB yet Playing Coquelin with Gabriel is risky Wenger also has played Debuchy and Monreal in CB positions, so he thinks we are covered probably

The move, though, would be a strange one with Arsenal well stocked in attacking and creative positions but sorely lacking defenders and a robust central midfielder.

Last week gave us a strange sort of Indy qualifying, with teams vying for spots in a race in which the pole position, if not the victor, had been determined long ago.

With Arsenal sitting in a lowly 8th position in the Premier League table and with us playing catch up to Borussia Dortmund in our Champions League group and having been knocked out of the Capital One Cup by Southampton, you might think it strange for me to say that Arsenal have excelled at anything so far this season, but as a tactical stats report on Arsenal.com shows, we certainly have.

They cite what they consider to be some strange team selections, players not playing in their best positions, an apparent favouritism for «undroppable players» (Noble being the main one here), poor preparation for games, a lack of organisation and tactical awareness, and players not seeming to understand (or able to carry out?)

It's a strange position to find myself in, and I feel we must at least explain how we have got to this point, where it's harder to discern between fellow...

Strange then that, yet again, we failed to provide any real width yesterday, rarely got behind the Leicester defence and managed to put only one on Andy's head in a threatening position during the whole game (at least that's my memory of events).

Jokanovic said: «Yes, Sessegnon is probably the most talented player in this country and this age, his natural physical preparation is amazing and he doesn't have problems for arriving in the box from a far position and at the end, we have opportunity to observe the beginning of one brilliant football career because, for myself, it will be very strange if this player doesn't play in the English national team.»

Ashley Young is also a natural wide player who is forced to play in a left - back position, but again, the former Aston Villa man has found it strange to adapt to his new role.

With Arsenal in the rare position of not dominating the possession Ozil's performance was a strange one, but the German playmaker took to his new defensive responsibilities with apparent happiness.

I have read various team news speculation during the week about formations and lineups which range from pragmatic damage limitation to the more bizarre including suggestions of playing Zabaleta at centre back or in midfield; strange that those having criticised Bilic for playing players out of position would believe that such an idea would have any more legs than the player himself.

It was strange that these rumours suddenly appeared after some excerpts from Ibrahimovic's book were made public In those Ibra accused Messi of taking his favoured center forward position at Barca.

Romero is the number one goalkeeper for Argentina but has not played in the same position ay his club, something which seems strange, but when he has been called on, he has done what he needed to do.