Sentence examples for claim a grounding from inspiring English sources

We applaud Aspinwall and Tedeschi's [ 1] apt condemnation of "saccharine terrorism, victim-blaming, and the promotion of mindless versions of positive thinking for personal gain" (in this issue), yet, we wonder how this is to be reconciled with the marketing of positive psychology by the leaders of the movement who nonetheless claim a grounding in scientific evidence.

The brand claimed a ground-breaking first for the fashion industry.

Speculation mounted last night that Switzerland will agree tax reforms after the UK government claimed a ground-breaking deal with the Alpine principality of Liechtenstein to encourage up to 5,000 Britons to declare details of their savings.

That will be new territory for him, and a long way from the days when he attended the same Swinton school as Ryan Giggs before going on to represent England at various schoolboy levels, including featuring in the Under-17 side captained by James Graham - now of St Helens - that claimed a ground-breaking series victory over the Australian Institute of Sport five years ago.

You might claim that, while a grounding claim like the former might be true, no grounding claim like the latter can be true if the same fact occupies two of the argument places of the grounding relation then different MOPs must occupy the remaining two argument places.

Here we can agree, for example, that you can vote because you're a citizen and that this is a grounding claim, but in so doing we aren't committed to the existence of propositions or facts (e.g., the proposition/fact that you can vote and the proposition/fact that you're a citizen) or relations (the grounding relation that holds between these propositions/facts).

Their plan gives the eventual Republican nominee an opening to claim a bipartisan middle ground.

The larger problem is that we live in an age where the supposedly good guys cannot claim a higher moral ground than al-Shabaab.

In response to this unbearable spectacle, the roughly half of Americans who are actually deeply invested in thinking of themselves as good people are trying to claim a moral high ground.

In a full-out attack by the Greens ahead of their autumn party conference, which begins on Friday in Bournemouth, the party's only MP Caroline Lucas accused ministers of "attempting to claim a moral high ground" but in reality "dragging its feet in taking the urgent action that's required to save lives".

The biblical story cannot claim a scientific higher ground.