Sentence examples for curious ground from inspiring English sources

This perpetual pressure would explain the curious ground rules at a More Than Money conference I visited in early May.

Nor that the sale was delayed for a week by more than 130 lawsuits, including one injunction granted by a small-town judge on the curious ground that the privatisation prospectus had not been published in English.

However, Hitoshi Tanaka, a Japanese foreign-policy expert who has taken part in comfort-women negotiations in the past, says it was long ago agreed between the two countries that Japan could not offer state handouts to individuals, however much they suffered, on the (admittedly curious) ground that the demands would be endless.

West Ham were fortunate not to be beaten out of sight and as a mood of uncertainty spread around this curious ground before kick-off, it felt like a sign of the times that, to borrow the terminology favoured by the stadium operators, customers were advised that persistent standing would result in offenders being ejected.

Hooper's first book, "A Child's Book of True Crime," was a novel — arguably a curious grounding for a work like this one.

In turn, Mr Murdoch's choices of executives are made on curious grounds, such as the "crush" he is said to have developed for Robert Thomson, who now edits the Wall Street Journal.

The operation wasn't imminent, but the senators opposed even drawing up a plan for it on the curious grounds that any attempted clandestine operation against General Noriega might cause his death.

The Express claims the Aussie winger has already rejected a move to Manchester United on the curious grounds of wanting to play for a club who, in the words of his agent Bernie Mandic, will turn him into a better footballer and fulfil his ambitions.

Many, including Transparency International, are occupying a curious middle ground – cautiously praising the long overdue reforms on the table (term limits, transparency of pay, separation of powers) that will also be voted on at the congress, while publicly wondering if Fifa's culture can ever change.

The track itself is built around the same sorts of tones that each have made their hallmarks chattering, clipped vocal samples, thunderous kick drums, and blindingly bright synth lines but it lands in a curious middle ground between Robinson's cosmos-probing instrumentals and the more earthbound romance that Madeon (born Hugo Pierre Leclercq) has embraced over the years.

The height Melville listed on his passport in 1849 (5' 10 1/8″) is curious on two grounds.