"It's been so reflexive since he was elected, to just give ground and give ground," Solomon told me.
But under the mistaken impression that Confederate cavalry had cut the Nashville Pike, Rosecrans had elected to hold his ground and "fight or die".
As for Obama's talks with Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke, they strike me as entirely appropriate given the state of the economy and the necessity for Obama, if elected, to hit the ground running to battle what polls show is Americans' most serious concern.
Barack Obama was elected to end the grueling ground wars of his predecessor, but he will leave office entrenching a military era defined by an inability to achieve either victory or extrication.
The media, hampered in their ability to report from the ground, has elected to go with citizen videos and photographs of the rising civil unrest.
We then elected to seek a variance to permit ground-floor retail.
Justin Salas, a former Division I wrestler, elected to take submission specialist Jason Saggo to the ground in the first round of their fight.
After Jose Vidro grounded out, the Mets elected to pitch to Vladimir Guerrero, who they had previously walked intentionally.
Manchester City won the toss, and elected to play towards the southern end of the ground in the first half, with the wind at their backs.
Indeed, many CBC members spent plenty of time "on the ground doing work" before they were elected to Congress.
A democrat, he was elected to the first Iranian parliament in 1907 but barred on grounds of youth.
