Sentence examples for ceding the ground from inspiring English sources

But she signaled on Sunday that she has no intention of ceding the ground she has built in Iowa.

By zipping his lip, he has only ceded the ground.

"We're trying to create a dialogue rather than cede the ground".

In accepting the essence of the Tory framework on austerity, in signing up to Tory spending limits, he ceded the ground on economic credibility to revamped Thatcherism and was playing catch-up from that moment.

On the other hand, to fail to stand up for Asghar and others like him is to cede the ground to those who think it's OK to kill people who say odd things.

"This man of the Kuwaiti state, a man of power and influence, has shown how Kuwait has ceded the ground to militant Islamists," said Fouad Ajami, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

David Nasaw, a history professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, said the society's shift was the museum's gain because the society effectively has said that it wants "to cede the ground and let the Museum of the City of New York take over New York" "The problem is, it's never been a standard history museum," Mr. Nasaw added.

"I think it's important that literature not cede the ground of this stuff to movies and TV.

Civil rights advocates must not cede the ground to those who would deny us equal protection of the law.

Otherwise we cede the ground, I think, needlessly" [ 19].

His jockey, Alex Solis, moved off the rail too soon and ceded the ground-saving inside trip to Kent Desormeaux and Fusaichi Pegasus, he reasoned.