Sentence examples for courts ground from inspiring English sources

Douglas Frantz (NYT) FRANCE: LAWYERS STRIKE Courts ground to a virtual standstill as 35,000 lawyers staged a nationwide strike to demand more pay for providing legal aid to the poor.

Nice rally, both players hitting clean and crisp cross-court ground strokes and stretching each other, this is quality tennis.

As the work of the court ground on into the hours after midnight, I found myself rereading some of the more memorable comments and seeing if they remotely fitted.

The whole shells were employed as razors in Louis XI's French court; ground shells have been utilized as a filling for dental cavities, as a polish for metal, and as thermal insulation in rocket nose cones.

The court grounded its holding in a very broad proposition indeed.

The principals in the drama had to encounter batteries of photographers at the entrance to the court grounds.

Another high-profile resident is Nelson Peltz, the multimillionaire financier who flouted local zoning laws by commuting in a helicopter from his 130-acre Bedford estate until a state appeals court grounded him this spring.

He was also a well-known potter, setting up his "Sunflower Pottery" in the Court grounds with the help of a local boy called George Masters.

The decision reversed a lower court ruling in favor of Harold Hodge Jr., an anti-police-brutality protester who was arrested in 2011 when he refused to leave the court grounds.

The Sorrells court grounded the entrapment defense in what has since been called the "subjective" test, in which the prosecution must overcome it by showing the defendant had a predisposition to commit the crime in any event.

In United States v. Grace (1983), a case challenging the ban on expressive activity in front of the Supreme Court, the justices ruled that "[t]he Court grounds are not transformed into 'public forum' property merely because the public is permitted to freely enter and leave the grounds at practically all times and is admitted to the building during specified hours".