Sentence examples for alter the ground from inspiring English sources
More broadly, a bad patch in the economy can alter the ground on which political battles are fought.
The 'balanced approach' - of public spending increases but also tax cuts - is confirmation that, even now, the Government is only frolicking in the margins of any plan it may have to alter the ground rules it inherited after 18 years in the wilderness.
Those other cases could include legislation or further orders that weaken or alter the ground rules for encryption on devices from phones to smart home units to pretty much anything with an internet connection.
The results show that the presence of permafrost can significantly alter the ground motion characteristics and it may not be conservative to ignore the effects of permafrost in the seismic design of civil structures.
And altering the ground floor of a building is routine.
In under six months Russian President Vladimir Putin, presiding as he does over a great power whose GNP is roughly the size of Spain's, managed to do that which his American counterpart deemed impossible: without sliding down a slippery slope into a bottomless quagmire, he militarily altered the ground truth in Syria so as to achieve a political objective.
In 1954 his decision in Roe v Minister of Health [1954] 2 AER 131 altered the grounds on which hospital staff could be found negligent, a legal precedent he himself had set in Gold v Essex County Council in 1942.
Despite the day's strong statements, many doubted whether any of the participants had the influence to alter the dynamics on the ground.
Kiev said Moscow was trying to alter the reality on the ground ahead of the talks, sending in a column of Russian armoured vehicles disguised as local separatists.
The air strikes, which appear to have checked the Houthi advance in the south and destroyed large quantities of military gear and ammunition, have done little to alter the balance on the ground.
In a statement, Burt said: "The settlements plan … has the potential to alter the situation on the ground on a scale that threatens the viability of a two-state solution".
