1.  An increment is a small step from the existing position.

2.  First, even critics of privatisation have the greatest difficulty in defending the existing position.

3.  Boeing officials do not expect a program will create new jobs in the Puget Sound area, but said it would save existing positions.

4.  But by increasing existing positions in their best-performing big-cap holdings, investors might have better chances of keeping up with the leading market indices.

5.  Cash flows have been healthy, Cabell said, and the money is being deployed into new names and existing positions that were hit hard.

6.  Equally, analysts said, they are forming them as a way of protecting their existing positions in the market.

7.  He recently added to an existing position in Transportation Technologies Industries, a leading Chicago manufacturer of truck parts.

8.  He said the company is not adding jobs, but will fill some existing positions as they become open.

9.  In a horrifying mess like this, leaders need space to walk back from existing positions.

10.  Prospects for more favorable weather sent speculators from the market, selling contracts to offset existing long positions and exaggerating the decline, analysts said.