How to Use position paper in a Sentence

position paper

noun
  • The book turns out to be a position paper on hot rodding, too, and getting fast cars off the street and onto the drag strip.
    — Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • June’s disastrous election forced a rethink and a series of position papers came in its wake.
    — Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Their decision is based on a 28-page joint-position paper that the two parties had hashed out earlier in Berlin.
    — Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Overall, however, his speech seemed almost a position paper for China at age 70.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • All of Biden’s position papers—whether on health care, taxation, government spending, or even foreign policy—should therefore be seen as works-in-progress.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The New Deal was invented in response to the emergency of the Depression rather than derived from off-the-shelf position papers.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But my hunch is that personal attributes and personal stories will matter far more to Democratic primary voters than the fine print in position papers.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Yet the authority of the esteemed doctors group and its position paper helped cement an alternative cause of death that defense attorneys for police argued in court.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The administration reviewed the position paper, available to read here, and provided comments.
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 6 July 2020
  • Industry consultants shared a 10-page position paper from a trade group criticizing the Kenyan measure.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 22 July 2024
  • Second, a statement on the CDC website about the importance of kids going back to school that reads more like a position paper than a public health analysis.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Three days later, China released a position paper on Ukraine that laid out a dozen broad principles for a political settlement to the conflict.
    — Bonny Lin, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2023
  • An early draft of a British government position paper, published by The Guardian on Wednesday, typically caused a furor.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The South African Reserve Bank is still developing a position paper on crypto-currencies.
    — Neil Shaw, Fox News, 16 July 2018
  • However, China's position paper did not acknowledge that Russia was the aggressor.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Political pros and pundits obsess about ideology and position papers; often average voters decide based more on mood and attitude.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
  • One group’s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar’s lead.
    — Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This report comes less than a year after the sustainability trade group published a position paper calling for improved integrity in the use of LCA data.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Over the summer, 10 Downing Street issued a raft of position papers — which were criticized for being written in such purposeful vagueness as to be nearly opaque.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Many airlines represented by local law firm FBC & Co say in a position paper that when alternative flights are so limited, their prices soar.
    — Galit Altstein, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Emails show its staff in regular contact with formula makers and their industry groups through meetings, calls and position papers — which the industry used to hammer its objections to regulations around the world.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The environment ministry published a position paper listing 12 key objectives required to reduce nuclear risk even further.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Mar. 2021
  • For years, Kohelet quietly churned out position papers, trying to nudge government policy in a more libertarian direction.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, their 28-page position paper opens with a call for a renewal of the EU and for the bloc to take its fate into its own hands by promoting more internal cohesion and solidarity.
    — Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2018
  • But China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment unveiled a new position paper yesterday that observers say shows little progress—or may even be a step backward.
    — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In May, the WHO released a position paper and implementation strategy to enable the expansion of kangaroo mother care around the world.
    — Gary Darmstadt, STAT, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The conservation society has developed an evolving position paper arguing that the story of the 1960 lunch counter integration should be told at both locations.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Beijing, which is nominally neutral on Russia’s war with Ukraine, recently issued its position paper on the conflict, itemizing a 12-point peace plan that could settle matters.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of people here in the Twin Cities believe this was an issue with Woodbury homes, but Woodbury was simply the one city who was bold enough to put out a position paper questioning the viability of stucco.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • By late July, the Warren campaign had released 29 position papers on topics ranging from banning private prisons to doubling the size of the Foreign Service.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2019

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