Sentence examples for essentially grounded from inspiring English sources

Then over the past few days, an official of the Free Syrian Army, the main rebel force, said that eight more Syrian pilots had fled across Syria's land border with Jordan, amid reports that fear of defections had essentially grounded the air force since Friday.

After Colonel Hamadeh's defection, some authorities said the Syrian Air Force was essentially grounded, although there were reports on Sunday and Monday of reconnaissance aircraft used in an eastern city, Deir el-Zour, where heavy government shelling has taken more than 70 lives in the past four days, according to both the Syrian Observatory and local activists reached by telephone.

Speaker Design is seen as essentially grounded in processes of conversational 'contextualization'; these processes are outlined from an interactional and from a cognitive perspective in turn.

One such theory, the sensory/functional, initially proposed by Warrington and McCarthy [1], [3] and later modified by others [22], [23], suggests that concepts are essentially grounded in sensory and functional semantic subsystems, and conceptual categories with different sensory or functional emphasis are represented in different subsystems.

The French economy, the second-largest in the euro zone, has essentially ground to a halt.

"The city has essentially ground to a halt, with a large chunk of the population gathered in the hockey arena to watch the game.

That line of argument essentially ground to a halt four years ago when a federal appeals court judge called the press lawyers' bluff.

Mr. Sarkozy's government had projected the 2012 target was reachable, based on the assumption that the economy would grow 0.7 percent; but growth has essentially ground to a halt.

"When else in our history has a freshman member of Congress from North Carolina been able to round up a gang of 80 that's essentially ground the government to a halt?" On Capitol Hill, the advocates found willing partners in Tea Party conservatives, who have repeatedly threatened to shut down the government if they do not get their way on spending issues.

"I'm working to make Brookhaven essentially ground zero for the development of sensors to detect chemical, biological and radiological weapons and explosives," said Ralph James, the associate director in charge of energy, environment and national security who is leading the lab's counterterrorism efforts.

In a far-reaching experiment with disciplinary measures reminiscent of old-style Catholic schools or military academies, the Cheektowaga district this year began essentially grounding middle school students whose grade in any class falls below 65, or who show what educators describe as a lack of effort.