Sentence examples for ground a plan from inspiring English sources

The nonprofit Urban Land Institute, devoted to urban issues, presented a report a few months after the storm, based purely on the city's topography, that proposed returning some of its most devastated low-lying areas to wetlands and concentrating more housing on higher ground — a plan that would, among other things, reduce the burden on the levees and canals that protect the city from storms.

A Democrat, Mr. O'Bannon favored the death penalty and wanted stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments installed on the State Capitol grounds, a plan that was blocked by a federal judge in 2000.

In February, privacy concerns prompted the Virginia legislature to put a hold on drone use for two years, and grounded a plan by Seattle police to deploy two camera-equipped drones.

The EU executive hopes to find the elusive common ground with a plan to boost the EU's infrastructure fund by increasing its value to €500bn (£425bn).

Accessible only by car via miles of winding, dusty Croatian roads, Gornja Siga – current population zero – is an unlikely testing ground for a plan to shape the world's political future.

"Congress must find common ground on a plan that can get support from both parties in the House and in the Senate, and it has to be a plan that I can sign by Tuesday," he said.

The British colony of Nigeria, which was being used as a staging ground for a planned invasion of Vichy-controlled Dahomey which did not occur, was also garrisoned by 13,000 Congolese troops.

Though the Board of Trustees seems ready to sell anything not stapled to the ground, they hatch a "plan" to save the school by reforming its curriculum.

But, an Australian physicist has broken new ground by submitting a plan for future efforts not to a grant agency seeking funding, but to his ladylove, apparently a fellow physicist, seeking her hand in marriage.

The emphasis lay on visual nuance, for, in keeping with a general denigration of the preconceived and the literary, the script was often treated less as a ground plan for a dramatic structure than as merely a theme for improvisation.

Two blueprints of a ground plan of a house and stable in Bar Harbor, Maine, 1903, a sketch showing proposed trails and planting along Six Mile Creek in Tompkins County, New York; reports and plans for Cornell University, 1910 and 1930; published report on a city plan for Birmingham, Alabama, 1919.