course position
4.slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular.
6.If man wants to survive in the heritage of human civilization in the challenge of the contemporary ecological crisis, he has to rethink the mankind’s historical course and his position on the globe and reconsider his behavior and way of thinking in order to live harmoniously, poetically and aesthetically on the blue planet.
8.Persons who are accustomed to suppose that plans of campaigns and of battles are made by generals in the same way as any of us sitting over a map in our study make plans of how we would have acted in such and such a position, will be perplexed by questions why Kutuzov, if he had to retreat, did not take this or that course, why he did not take up a position before Fili, why he did not at once retreat to the Kaluga road, leaving Moscow, and so on.
