#position

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#adverse #between #directly #ending #front

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

#class #composition #english #essays #first

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#among #any #ascendancy #composition #gain

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. ↗

— Bill Gates

#dad #estate #estate tax #me #popular

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#almost #any #anything #assent #get

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#marriage #obama #position

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. ↗

— Ron Paul

#course #end #fed #i #i do

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#jeopardy #legal #media #open #position

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#blaming #far #irrespective #many #moved