Obama's insistence on consensus seems a way to keep the conversation on safe, friendly, ground.
But he's right to feel that our higher education system isn't friendly ground for current conservative ideology.
He is considered one of the greener Republicans and clearly felt he was on friendly ground at the question-and-answer session that ended his visit.
Mrs. Clinton had tried to steer the day's news away from the debate over soft-money spending and toward more friendly ground.
Still, even if he grasped every nuance of this unusual action, it remains puzzling that he took a radio gig on enemy turf even if it was once friendly ground to him as the Mets' manager.
The Passion Experience tour, which last year played 35 cities, chose New York, which is not considered friendly ground for Christian music, to draw area Christians out of isolation, said Shelley Giglio, who started Passion in 1997 with her husband, Louie, as an outgrowth of a student ministry they formed at Baylor University in the 1980's.
Despite a rather dull game between the Steelbacks and the Royals (that's Northants and Worcestershire to me), enlivened only by a number of catches following one hapless fielder in rapid succession, who kept dropping them, it was a pleasant evening at a friendly ground.
Vanderbilt was not friendly ground for the anti-apartheid movement.
Missions include seeking out and destroying enemies, escorting friendly ground units, preventing smuggling and bomb disposal.
Remember, in a bar you're a hunter on friendly ground.
Wisconsin, with its 86 pledged delegates at stake, proved to be friendly ground for Sanders.
