Sentence examples similar to ground capital from inspiring English sources

The remaining ground for capital punishment is retribution.

The hamlet serves as a community, cruising ground, and capital of high gay society.

Officials in Brussels have been on a longstanding crusade to stop Portugal and other governments from using golden shares to block foreign takeovers on the grounds that capital should be able to flow freely across the 27-nation bloc.

After leaving Collins Stewart Smith said his style as an investor would be to demand changes at companies on two grounds: where capital allocation was not correct or where pay policies were badly structured.

Some have supported James Tobin's (1996) proposal for a tax on international currency exchanges on the grounds that capital markets are currently structured in a way that makes significant shocks and financial crises more frequent and more painful than they need be, often causing grave and lasting harm to poorer and more vulnerable economies.

Waterlogged motorways in Brazil's economic capital ground to a halt.

On the day she launched her campaign in the national stadium, the capital ground to a halt.

Slowly but surely you will see increased demand and successful and well-designed projects on the ground securing private capital," Ms. Durschinger said.

The eight storey garment factory - built on swampy unstable ground outside the capital city Dhaka - collapsed in April 2013 after the upper four floors were built without permission.

Only a few years ago the Spanish capital ground to a halt every August, as offices, shops and bars closed for the entire month.

However, they lost ground in the capital, Caracas, and in some of the most urban and economically important parts of the country.