41.   Perhaps the word preposition, from the Latin for position before, suggested to pedagogues that a preposition must never come last.

42.   Presidents often needed to fill Cabinet posts, judgeships and ambassadorial positions months before the Senate could convene.

43.   Prime Minister Netanyahu put out maximalist positions before coming here and he kept to them in letter and in spirit.

44.   Quicker faceoffs will be attempted, including no line changes for neutral-zone faceoffs and no drawn-out jockeying for position before the puck is dropped.

45.   Regardless of who whacked him, Dellenbach had never been in this position before.

46.   Several administration officials blamed the U.N. commander, Smith, for failing to move his troops to more defensible positions before the air raid.

47.   Sanchez has every opportunity to construct a cogent position before November.

48.   Some traders said local and British banks were short dollars and sought to close those positions before the weekend.

49.   Starr also asserted that Clinton committed perjury again when he repeated that position before a federal grand jury.

50.   Stockton thought the second-round leader might stumble because Morgan, a non-winner, had never been in this position before.