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
With the commercial we have of course no traffic; the classic is a place for those still learning what has already been said, a place for orientisation, for finding out where one stands.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen
From where one stands, right away like a beam, leading from rise to rise, it runs to the cathedral town.
From Hills and the Sea by Belloc, Hilaire
Nothing like knowing exactly where one stands, is there?”
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline
