Together, the positions amounted to a bet that 30-year Treasury bond yields would stay between 6 percent and 6.70 percent.

Ethiopia wants implementation before a ceasefire, and says Eritrea's position amounts to "setting preconditions".

The company says that the Government's position amounts to heavy-handed meddling in the marketplace and a threat to its corporate livelihood.

"The position amounts to this," he said.

"The position in which I find myself" amounts to more of the same.

Her position amounts to saying it's society that should change, not fat people.

In fact, its position amounts to "Where there's smoke, there's fire."

There have been charges and disclosures recently that in some areas those positions have amounted to a vast patronage pool for board members.

That enabled the fund to borrow so much money that its positions amounted to 30 or more times its capital.

SA's position amounts to advocacy of brute force, ironically in the service of high-tech.