Sentence examples for credible ground from inspiring English sources

"There has to be a credible ground force which we are supporting with our air power.

This posed a credible ground threat that the Serbian leader could not ignore.

The first lesson of political positioning is that you have to have credible ground to stand on.

The truth is that, historically, aerial bombardment usually fails to be decisive unless it supports credible ground forces.

"They are trying to build a leadership of credible ground forces, and I think that is a huge distinction," said Elizabeth O'Bagy, an expert on the Syrian rebel groups at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.

"You cannot do this job from the air alone unless there is a credible ground force and I don't mean just the Kurds who are only part of the picture," he told the BBC.

He said the report "lacked credible grounds" to suggest Inditex had broken its agreement in Brazil.

The accusation has been rejected by Sussex police, which told the Guardian: "There are objectively no credible grounds on which to base an allegation of police officers being engaged in secret operations against the complainant or seeking to protect any officer involved in the tragic road traffic collision.

The theme is helped immeasurably by the performance of Michael Leydon Campbell as Joe, whose fiercely coiled, loony-bird turn here never lets go of a credible grounding in ordinary despair; he's the kind of guy who feels left out in a win-at-all-costs culture, the kind of guy who is reminded by the sweaty, sexy, cacophanous drumbeat of pro sports of everything he is not.

Significant advances have been made in the field of probabilistic natural hazard analysis in recent decades leading to the development of PSHA, a method for assessing and expressing the probability of earthquake hazard at a site of interest in terms of maximum credible ground-shaking intensity for timeframes of interest.

In fact, economists can make a credible argument, grounded in history, that bonds or stocks or houses are so far ahead of themselves that they will be to the coming decade what Japanese real estate and General Motors shares were to the previous one.