Sentence examples for folk ground from inspiring English sources

The father is a teacher, although his family is of the Tennessee logging tradition, something rough and hard, men and women living on the essentials of the new Eden, harborers of small traditions of humor and song but mostly beaten down like proud flags in the dust, white folk ground into nothing, and bitter for it.

Stories like these drive home the reality that the BP disaster has hijacked people's lives, and it will take a long, long time before many folks land on firm ground.

"The faster we can offer some relief to folks on ground," Mr. Obama said, "the better off we're going to be".

Set in a fictional northeastern college, the first film used up most of the urban folk tales grounded in grisly killings -- the madman with an ax hiding in the back seat of a car, the pet placed in a microwave to dry off -- and was even forced to invent some of its own.

When the G-Men sang an arrangement of "Interlude 1," by the British folk-step ground Alt-J, Cooper Kitching, an M.C., was shouting in the wings: "This is weird, but I like it!" After the song, Marty Gray, an Upper Peninsula native and the G-Men's arranger, ran off the stage and went back to the Hotel Beacon, saying: "I wanted to write something atmospheric and non resolving.

When the G-Men sang an arrangement of "Interlude 1," by the British folk-step ground Alt-J, Cooper Kitching, an M.C., was shouting in the wings: "This is weird_,__ _but I like it!" After the song, Marty Gray, an Upper Peninsula native and the G-Men's arranger, ran off the stage and went back to the Hotel Beacon, saying: "I wanted to write something atmospheric and non resolving.

Midcareer folks lose ground in this shift.

Possibly worth recalling in this context are certain other high-level government initiatives to make the folks at ground level accountable.

Uncommon Ground, folk.

Although a mini-industry has arisen of India optimists who predict that the country's entrepreneurial spirit will make it an economic superpower over the next two decades, many business folk on the ground feel disillusioned.

Similarly, phenotypes cannot ground folk theories of race: for instance, differences in skin tone are gradual, not discrete; and blood-type variations occur independently of the more visible phenotypes associated with race, such as skin color and hair texture.