After it failed to gain ground, Yahoo abruptly reversed course, paying a billion dollars for a 40 percent share in Alibaba, a local Internet giant, which then took over its Chinese business.
His family, eyes on the ground, stopped abruptly, then crowded closer around him.
It curves westward from its peak to its westernmost height, Hill 346, from which the ground drops abruptly to the Naktong River.
TRUMP'S NOBEL ON SHAKY GROUND North Korea abruptly announced Tuesday it was canceling high-level talks with Seoul to protest recent joint military exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea.
I felt inadequate, cold; our relationship abruptly grounded.
Perhaps sensing that he has ventured onto thin ice, he abruptly shifts ground.
Steve McQueen's new film, 12 Years a Slave, contests this ground and returns us abruptly to the problems of race and human freedom.
Trying to cover all this ground, Churchward often shifts abruptly from one thing to another, and tends to leave Liberman's private life for quick, unexpected asides, most of them involving his famously eccentric and difficult wife, Tatiana.
With just two weeks left before Israel's prime ministerial election, cabinet ministers and teams of technical advisers from both sides met tonight around a long banquet table set for 42, discussing ground rules for the abruptly resumed negotiations.
We were wandering on contested ground, another past ceding abruptly to the future.
