Meanings of unfavorable position in English

The Federals soon opened on us with two guns occupying an unfavorable position considerably below us.

If they fall in an unfavorable position, they continue the effort until the blocks fall as desired.

She was plunged up to her armpits in the snow, and was, of course, placed in a very unfavorable position for extricating herself.

Even the sourest and crabbedest apple, growing in the most unfavorable position, suggests such thoughts as these, it is so noble a fruit.

He must act promptly and decisively, or he would find himself in a distinctly unfavorable position in his relations with the Criminal Investigation Department.