11.  The switch is on when the rim of one plate is pressed hard against another, increasing friction, and is off in the opposite position.

12.  Then, before the curve starts to flatten again as Wesbury expects, they could take the opposite position.

13.  This time the test light should glow when the switch is in the opposite position.

14.  To support their opposite positions, administration officials and cable operators both cited the same federal laws.

15.  To support their opposite positions, administration officials and cable operators cited the same federal laws and provisions in the franchise agreements.

16.  Why then did it publish a study arguing the opposite position?

17.  A hodge-podge collection of liberal groups, however, took a diametrically opposite position.