Sentence examples for capital ground from inspiring English sources
Waterlogged motorways in Brazil's economic capital ground to a halt.
On the day she launched her campaign in the national stadium, the capital ground to a halt.
Only a few years ago the Spanish capital ground to a halt every August, as offices, shops and bars closed for the entire month.
The capital ground to a halt Saturday, and has remained at a standstill ever since.
Just a few weeks later, life in the French capital ground to a halt after three gunmen attacked the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
"Our position is we have always enforced curfews; otherwise we would have thousands of people sleeping all over the capital grounds".
South Carolina politicians call for the Confederate flag to come down: http://t.co/zNogo5h87q pIt.twitter.com/mY8RfxrliG "It's time to move the flag from the capital grounds," Ms Haley said on Monday, adding that people wishing to display the flag on private property will not be stopped.
"The next day he called me and said he's going to set up a tent on the capital grounds -- he was the first one down there," Benjamin says.
"I find it very annoying that I have been effectively put out of my home and then our state governor says I can't protest on the state capital grounds," Ruisch says.
Brazil went through no fewer than three constitutions, in 1891, 1934 and 1946, each enshrining the notion of a new capital, before ground was even broken on the site.Even after construction gets under way, most purpose-built capital cities fall far behind schedule.
In short, Australia's capital is ground zero for kangaroo mayhem.
