Sentence examples for expect to ground from inspiring English sources

"When you go into government, the people you expect to ground you and advise you are the ones who start asking you to chop [steal] for them," said Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, a former local government chairman in Lagos and director at the Lagos-based Centre for Public Policy.

If all the approvals are granted, they expect to break ground next year and finish by 2014.

They formed a company to develop the project in 2009 and now, with 11 of 24 households committed, expect to break ground this fall.

But she didn't expect to gain much ground.

We're not actually that old, and expect to be above ground for a while yet.

We expect to be in the ground in the first quarter of 2013, with an opening date of first quarter 2015.

Barry said players from City now expect to be abused at grounds, as supporters perceive them as being greedy.

Neither side realistically expects to gain ground, or to force the other to the negotiating table.

Mr. Obama is widely expected to give ground on the main sticking point, the dividends tax.

Penn, his crew, and University of North Dakota archaeologist Bill Caraher are expected to break ground on Saturday.

By December, this group expects to break ground on a $600 million regasification plant in Mexico.