The phrase "altering the ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where changes or modifications are being made to a physical location or metaphorically to a situation or concept.
Example: "The construction team is altering the ground to prepare for the new building's foundation."
Alternatives: "changing the terrain" or "modifying the landscape."
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.
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.
During this electronic transition the spin of the electron is not altered; the singlet ground state and the excited singlet state have like multiplicity (number of subdivisions into which a level can be split).
If you damage these assets badly enough you risk significantly altering the military balance on the ground in favour of the rebels.
At a time when many wondered if the Olympics could endure or remain relevant in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks last September -- when many of its sports were deemed outdated, with its international leadership denigrated or ignored and with old world alliances threatening its credibility -- the 2002 Olympics instead broke ground, altering the way the Games are perceived.
In terms of changing facts on the ground, or substantively altering the egregiously negative Syrian dynamic, it may have scant impact.
