Sentence examples for ground someone else from inspiring English sources

"As long as I'm above ground, I'll carry on," says 71-year-old Apted when we meet on the 20th floor of ITV's London HQ. "Maybe if I wasn't above ground, someone else would take it over.

I'm more a fan of not buying the ticket in the first place, though that has the draw back that, for many areas of the ground, someone else will happily buy it instead – so there's still the transaction.

Also, having noted the attention that the ICL's Lahore Badshahs got, Modi and friends will be keen to stake their claim to fertile ground before someone else does.

They put him back on the ground and took someone else.

"Had the prime minister resigned," says Anjum Ibrahim in Pakistan's Business Recorder, "the party would have benefited from the martyrdom plea that would have almost certainly been a battle cry for the next elections!" Indeed, Gilani's party could have claimed the higher ground and nominated someone else from its ranks to take over.

If you throw the ball to the person successfully, you can run to the wall and be safe(if the ball hits the ground first or someone else catches it, you are not safe anymore).

Patients waiting a long time may be selected for transplant on equity grounds even if someone else, who has not waited as long, would obtain greater health benefits from transplantation.

"Right out of college, I want to get my feet on the ground and work for someone else," he said.

People are convinced the Yugoslavian oil pipelines we siphon and the bodies we bulldozed into the ground in Panama were someone else's doing.

If you have just stood someone else's ground, say or type "hero".

Maybe we should rethink our foreign policy from the ground up, rather than bombing someone else's country into dust to compensate for our lack of moral rectitude.