Sentences with phrase «strange position of»

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.

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

«INTERVIEW: Theaster Gates on His Strange Position of Power.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Is the strange positioning of the bodies evidence of a ritualistic burial?

First off, one that's been complained about a lot is the strange positioning of the HTC logo in the middle of the home and back buttons at the bottom of the screen.

Not exact matches

Just look at the strange evolution of the New Democratic Party's position on the question.

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!

Aside from the fact that the principle of relativity entails no such conclusions, it should also be observed that Kraus's position here entails a strange conflation of divine and human subjectivities.

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.

By a strange misunderstanding, a so - called speculative dogmatic, which certainly - has suspicious dealings with philosophy, has entertained the notion that it is able to comprehend this definition of sin as a position.

The silversmith artists rightly point out the demise of their trade and the city's position as center of Artemis worship if this strange message of Christ is accepted, and yet at what cost do they keep their industry?

Mr. Sullivan likely deems the positions of such as Foucault and Brown to be extreme, meaning that they are not to his taste, although he has written elsewhere about the erotic charms of anonymous sex with strangers.

«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.»

Under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee they worked out a position that was very strange for most Protestant Churches.

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.

It's added that the Merseyside outfit had demanded $ 200m for Coutinho, and it would seem strange if they negotiated that position moving forward and so Barcelona are again set to fall way short of the price - tag.

Perhaps the overwhelming oddness of the position — the shadows of 1966, the constant scrutiny, the on - again, off - again calendar, the increasing irrelevance of international football when set against the all - consuming Premier League, the insistence from the FA that the England manager stand as some kind of moral paragon — drives those that inhabit it to do strange things, to kick out against common sense.

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.

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.

Ever since this summer's pre-season, we have seen some pretty strange combinations played, but no one was prepared for the insane team selection announced one hour before the Liverpool debacle While nothing can explain, let alone justify, leaving our only two summer signings on the bench for such an important match, and giving starts to our two most fervent want away stars, the maddest decision of all was playing key defenders out of position against a fast, attacking team like Pool.

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?)

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.»

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.

The use of the wing - back has been gaining more prominence in recent years, and Conte is no stranger to the philosophy, having deployed a similarly attack - minded Emanuele Giaccherini to great success in a similar position for his Italy team during their impressive Euro 2016 campaign.

But it just seems strange that Arsenal have allowed themselves to get in the position of having to fight back from an opening day defeat when everything that went wrong could have been predicted and efforts made to stop Arsenal not being ready.

And this puts us in a really strange and irrational position, because we're having to deny facts that are well - established through mountains of research.

The position might seem strange to some of you, just like it does Deutchman's friends.

It seems to be strange and look like cheering in its dream.At first glance, that sleeping position can be cuteness, but after a long time when your baby repeats the action too many times, some of you may ask yourself «why do -LSB-...]

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

I wouldn't trust myself to sleep in the same bed as my 5 - month old, because I have woken up in all kinds of strange sleeping positions and I don't want my realization that I am too heavy a sleeper to be when my baby suffocates.

Erroneously, I believed that my partner should just know what kinds of touch felt best or which positions worked for me — which was strange, because I didn't know them myself.

Frida gave feedback about things such as materials («the material of the prototype's waist belt made it difficult to pull the baby carrier around when using it on your back»), the placement of the buckles («you had to twist your wrist into a strange position on the prototype when you fastened it») and the placement of the waist belt («the waist belt didn't stay in place in an early version of the prototype»).

Given her range of experience across most government departments and familiarity with economics, for her not to have commented and put forward a straight centre left position (which is miles better than the Chris Leslie press release), well, that would have been a strange occurrence indeed.