Sentence examples for ground a position from inspiring English sources

But most Congressional Republicans are standing their ground, a position they say is strategic.

Even the promotions were achieved without a permanent training ground, a position now being rectified with two complexes being built, one in partnership with Swansea University.

It has been the policy of British governments not to fund legal assistance for British nationals abroad on cost grounds, a position upheld by the Supreme Court in 2013.

One magazine has an artist's impression of a general leading his troops at full gallop; his horse has all four legs off the ground in a position that photography would shortly prove was impossible.

"The Japanese did it a lot at Okinawa and Iwo Jima," observes Col. Charles Payne, professor of military history at Virginia Tech, adding that Special Operations forces today would call a hole dug in the ground a "hide position".

His tandem bike was outfitted with saddlebags holding a video camera pointed at the ground, a global positioning system, or G.P.S., device and a laptop computer loaded with a software editing program.

The peanut flower is actually produced above ground but assumes a position close to the soil surface as it ages.

From the earliest days of their training, umpires are taught how to cope with this: on most infield ground balls, establish a position 15 to 18 feet from the first-base bag and at a right angle to the perceived path of a true throw.

"Someone has to stand their ground and take a position," he said.

The (text {Nexus}32^{TM}) QEEG system and a cap were used, with 19 electrodes, two references (an electrode under each earlobe close to retrahens Auricular), and 1 ground (an electrode positioned at AFz) following the 10 20 standard.

A ground position estimate is continually updated by scene ground-plane fitting, or from the walk-motion model, and is used to classify scene features as obstacles or parts of the ground.