where one stands
Example Sentences
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Blinken, who has gone back and forth among buildings several times, knows better than most that where one sits usually indicates where one stands on the subject.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015
Coined by Rufus Miles in the late 1940s, it posits that where one stands on any issue is determined solely by where one sits, not by notions of intellectual consistency and rigor.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2011
I have written this in some detail to show the unexpected difficulties that arise with these animals, and the impossibility of knowing exactly where one stands.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
Fifty-six bells, Djack—a wondrous wilderness of bells rising above where one stands in the belfry, tier on tier, tier on tier, until one's gaze is lost amid the heavenly company aloft....
From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But until one perceives clearly just where one stands action is impossible.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
