Sentence examples for claim ground from inspiring English sources

Not that women will always vote for women, but a woman on the ticket would energize voters and claim ground Democrats have taken advantage of for too long.

Stegmann, Wecker, Weinberger, and Fischer (2012) employed an external collaboration script aimed at supporting learners in online discussions to construct arguments on a scriptlet level with a claim, ground, and qualification.

Learners were supported with an external script that was implemented as a graphical interface offering different text fields labeled "claim," "ground," and "qualification".

SOMETIME late last Aug. 8, NATO warplanes flying from Europe arrived over the Libyan farming village of Majer, where forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi were withdrawing and anti-Qaddafi forces were claiming ground.

It's an unspoken fundamental assumption in law that claims of legal right or obligation are claims grounded, in some appropriate way, in past institutional decisions and standing practices of government in actual not ideal institutional arrangements and that only claims so grounded shall be recognized and enforced.

However, are these claims grounded in fact or are we watching yet another sentiment driven bubble?

Here is an important context for why expertise (making claims grounded in evidence) is important and how all discourse is political.

But some proponents of grounding also claim that grounding is variegated.

Proponents of grounding tend to claim that grounding is unitary (Audi 2012; Rosen 2010; Schaffer 2009).

"O.K.," I agreed, slowly keying into the secret politics of an American company trying to claim French ground.

For instance, one of the positive politeness principles outlined in Brown and Levinson (1987, 102) was 'Claim common ground'.