To make these more sturdy you might drive them into the ground to steady them.
On the one side is the relatively steady ground of alternative comedy; on the other is the sheer drop in to racist buffoonery.
The critic Richard Gilman said of the book: "In 'Armies of the Night,' the rough force of Mailer's imagination, his brilliant wayward gifts of observation, his ravishing if often calculated honesty and his chutzpah all flourish on the steady ground of a newly coherent subject and theme".
E.B.M. tries to move that judgment to the steadier ground of data.
While UV Vis studies reveal considerable amount of fullerene/1 interaction in ground state, steady state fluorescence study establishes remarkable quenching of fluorescence intensity of 1 in the presence of fullerenes C60 and C70.
The correction brings air temperatures into line with measurements of steady warming at the ground, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.
The view from HD 131399Ab would be spectacular if not for the ferocious winds, the lack of solid ground, and a steady rain of liquid iron.
We can surrender a become a victim of fear, and let it destroy more life, or, we can stand steady on the ground of living in ways that protect, nourish and raise up and bless new life upon this earth.
The stability of steady state electrode processes is treated mathematically on the grounds of the differential equations of the electrochemical reactions occurring at an electrode.
With some allies questioning what a month of steady bombing has accomplished, the United States could point to a tangible gain on the ground.
