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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a ground upon which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a basis or reason for a particular argument, decision, or action.
Example: "The committee found a ground upon which to justify their decision to proceed with the project."
Alternatives: "a basis for" or "a foundation for".
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"After I broke with the Communist Party I had nowhere else to go," Wright told Ellison; much of his self-imposed exile in France was spent trying to find what Ellison called "a new ground upon which to struggle".
We argue that the proposed architecture permits the interconnection of almost any kind of government body and that it establishes a common ground upon which new standardization levels can be built.
GIS offers a common ground upon which people, pixel and their data could easily interact (Lakhtakia et al. 1993).
The benefits of this approach are two-fold: it allows for diversity and provides a neutral ground upon which to compare emergency care systems.
This review shows that the WHO FCTC served as an important ground upon which to amend laws to strengthen tobacco control in Korea.
In a suit in equity for the infringement of a patent, the ground upon which profits are recovered is that they are the benefits which have accrued to the defendants from their wrongful use of the plaintiff's invention, and for which they are liable, ex aequo et bone, to the like extent as a trustee would be who had used the trust property for his own advantage.
Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.
The grandson of Kanō Motonobu, who had established the aesthetic canons of the Kanō school, Eitoku made the Kanō style yet more monumental and gorgeous by introducing a gold-leaf ground, upon which he applied brighter colours and heavier black-ink outlines.
Applying the vocabulary and concepts of epidemics to the criminal justice sphere, will create a more leveled ground upon which health and justice scholars and practitioners can better collaborate to devise new studies, propose solutions and advance policies.
Before it became a behemoth of a rugby stadium, the ground upon which the hallowed turf now sits was a market place.
But it turns out that there is a broad swath of common ground upon which to build a fruitful compromise.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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