Sentence examples for abandoning the ground from inspiring English sources

And it took the Republican duo across much of the breadth of southern Michigan, where they spent about seven stop-and-go hours before abandoning the ground for the sky and flying here tonight.

It is for America to abandon the ground on which hitherto the History of the World has developed itself.

Washington's running backs had gained only 2 yards by halftime, and after that the Huskies essentially abandoned the ground game.

The Labour leader is not so much abandoning the middle ground as banking on it having shifted left.

Now several prominent Democrats are abandoning the high ground and have decided to raise millions of their own secret dollars.

It is surely possible to develop a plan to respond to Mr Brown's partial rehabilitation tortoise-like in content to avoid abandoning the centrehabilitation tortoise-likectinity to dominate the headlines.

But there is a cost to staying on the outside, abandoning the centre ground, giving up on something that is, for all the packaging, still a huge, living, beloved part of our shared cultural wealth.

And the day after David Cameron reminded financiers that he came from a family of three generations of stockbrokers, George Osborne set the seal on the new battle lines by accusing the government of abandoning the centre ground to "set one part of the country against another".

The city said it was abandoning the Parade Grounds plan because Borough President Howard Golden of Brooklyn refused to drop a lawsuit against the city seeking to stop construction of the stadium.

In lower Manhattan, where a buyout program isn't feasible, Jacob suggests abandoning the basements and ground floors of skyscrapers, or at least relocating critical utilities to a higher floor.

Meanwhile Ed Balls has dismissed concerns that Labour has shifted to the left, insisting it is the Tories who have moved to the right, abandoning the political centre ground.