The phrase "favorable ground" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a situation or circumstance that is advantageous or beneficial. Example: The company decided to expand into a new market where they believed they could find favorable ground for growth and success.
There's a final issue: Some big winner-take-all and winner-take-most states aren't necessarily favorable ground for him.
Emboldened Democratic leaders, meanwhile, rallied lawmakers for a showdown on what they believe is favorable ground, fighting on behalf of popular policies against an unpopular president who has had a brutal week of news coverage.
We now move to Super Tuesday next week, when the race is on more favorable ground for Mr. Santorum (who has a strong lead in polls in Ohio and Tennessee).
"Ultimately what is shaping this confrontation is the perception, even among the less ideologically extreme Republicans, that in fact the president has occupied the most favorable ground on the major issues that are up," said Thomas Mann, a congressional authority at the Brookings Institution.
It is a question Mr. Romney's campaign will press with increasing intensity through the coming weeks as it seeks to upset Mr. Santorum in his former home state of Pennsylvania on April 24 — and to pressure him into dropping out before he gets into what is presumably more favorable ground in May, when Southern states including Texas and North Carolina vote.
The Affordability Index for home buyers is in very favorable ground, too, but this is now academic.
Whereas Bill Clinton had engaged the Republican attacks on these issues directly, and convincingly, Obama chose to make his stand on more favorable grounds: foreign policy, the auto bailout, student loans, and the elimination of Osama bin Laden.
Fourth, the CHW model focuses on engaging the target population on favorable grounds and in ways that facilitate the uptake of healthy behaviors [ 20], which is precisely the sensitive community-based approach necessary for YHFS.
In addressing our second aim, if programs are implemented appropriately, the evidence suggests that both generalist and specialist CHWs could be a suitable cadre for engaging adolescents on favorable grounds and potentially facilitating the uptake of adolescent health messages.
As places such as Tampa, Miami and Charleston, S.C., lose shoreline, the ocean gains more shallow, warm water along the coast, and a larger area of highly favorable breeding ground for algae.
Finally, both favorable and unfavorable ground conditions required for the applicability of Norwegian confinement criteria in locating the unlined pressure shafts and tunnels for geotectonic environment different from that of Norway are highlighted.
