Sentence examples for ground for example from inspiring English sources

While appeal to tacit consent is most familiar in the context of attempting to ground special political obligations, one could also use this notion in order to ground, for example, special obligations to friends.

"A man's feet might no longer touch the ground, for example.

And that's something most of our generation haven't experienced, what it's like to have your town invaded and burned to the ground, for example.

Two white lines on a black ground, for example, could not be appreciated as distinct if their images fell on the same or adjacent sets of receptors.

The line, which looks layered and colour-coded (red running over a blue-green over black, all on a bluish-grey ground, for example), is all in the same surface.

Even if firms continue to turn up new sources of commodities "in the ground", for example, new fossil fuels will only add to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, increasing global warming.

"Larger animals can save energy while traveling horizontally--on the ground, for example--by taking long strides," says Hanna, now a biological anthropologist at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg.

On these grounds, for example, Cantonese and Mandarin are two languages, not two dialects of a single language called Chinese.

The more than 100 employees participate in an on-site composting program, and trash bins are provided for food waste that appeals to worms (coffee grounds, for example).

It matters, too, that the majority didn't simply rule for Windsor on narrow grounds — for example, ones related to exclusively to federalism.

A number of the companies highlighted would be ruled out by some socially responsible investors on ethical grounds, for example arms manufacturers and tobacco groups.