vis-a-vis

You stand in the same position vis-à-vis your crew.

The Gulf states and Turkey have also made significant inroads, granting African nations choice and bargaining power vis-a-vis the EU, said Geert Laporte of ECDPM, a European think tank.

She told an interviewer that, at that point, “what the President did vis-a-vis the President of Ukraine just removed all doubt that we had to act.”

Mr. Jones, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, delivers a stern warning on where the U.S. now stands vis-à-vis its closest competitor, Communist China.

In contrast, manufacturing activity in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Vietnam “is getting a second wind from robust orders, as a ‘tariff advantage’ emerges vis-à-vis China,” given lower U.S. tariff rates, said Erica Tay, an economist at Maybank.