Although forest biology has benefited from novel technologies such as remote sensing and GIS, many 'on the ground' sensing technologies have not changed in many decades.
Hopkins had statistics on poverty pouring into his office in Washington but, in order to more effectively administer his relief program, he wanted a personal, on-the-ground sense of what the country's poorest citizens were experiencing.
But critics of the process say the city does not do enough to get an on-the-ground sense of school quality, and that it frequently closes schools despite credible signs of improvement.
But there always is Mr. Axelrod's grounded sense of context and avoidance of hubris.
We tend to lose that practical, grounded sense as the history proceeds.
In RD Laing's world, a grounding sense of humour was never too far away.
Developing skills and talents are important, but there is no substitute for a grounded sense of self.
Accordingly, they're inclined to ascribe to him a deep, philosophically grounded sense of the meaning of human liberty, which guided him at every step.
Little else in the show makes such humanly grounded sense, though there's no gainsaying the appeal of the abundant flavors of an international aesthetic cuisine: French color, Italian locomotion, Russian tectonics, Dutch severity, American pep.
