Sentences with phrase «really occupy a position»

In this lecture he lamented the manner in which science is treated as merely one of the factors to be considered within a debate, weighted equally with other unscientific viewpoints when, given that science gives us our most secure understanding of the physical world, it should really occupy a position of primacy within public debate.

Not exact matches

Despite much of the British media doing complex mental gymnastics to explain why Paul Pogba is, in fact, not good, he's really a star: In baseball, shortstops and center fielders are inherently more valuable than other players because they occupy premium defensive positions, and the same goes for a competent defensive midfielder like Pogba, who's an elegant hurricane with the ball at his feet and can provide consistent attacking output from a position where it's not expected.

Thornley's Man Utd career never really got going, as he was unfortunate enough to occupy the same position as Ryan Giggs.

The other really significant position in the upper house is Senate Finance Committee chair, which is currently occupied by Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse - area Republican.

For the years I have spent so far, God has really blessed me to occupy different good positions in Nigeria.

What you can really see is that most tenure and professor positions are occupied by Dutch people (my professor, though, was not Dutch).

The sheer randomness of mass gun violence in our society means that even if we are very unlikely to die from such violence, we can never really dismiss the possibility, and the unique position America occupies in the developed world as the undisputed capital of gun violence and mass shootings can not be dismissed either.

Nissan also positioned the XD in a space not really occupied by any other truck.

Perhaps many of the other signers were instead looking right past the people occupying the centre position, and instead were trying to address those on the sceptic side who really do attack science — maybe not even aware when they signed that their stand was being used to support the very anti-science attitudes they wanted so much to criticise.

And that's a really bad position for LG to occupy when consumers still aren't sold on the basic smartwatch concept, and Android Wear hasn't yet become a household name.