Sentence examples for ground sorting from inspiring English sources

One afternoon, in a ragged encampment of tents and tarps on the south bank, several dozen displaced Kashmiri women squatted on rocky ground, sorting through heaps of donated clothing.

A group of students from Charles Campbell College were kneeling on the ground; sorting out the posters they'd made for the day and quickly scribbling out some more signs.

"To be honest, it blew me away in the first few days... the ground sort of shifted beneath my feet.

For unlike, say, Marina Abramovic, who once spent 12 days living on a series of high platforms in a Chelsea gallery, showering, napping and standing about in what Roberta Smith in The New York Times called "full-tilt endurance-art mode," above the heads of gallerygoers in nearly every way, Ms. Kasper is a boots-on-the ground sort of person.

For anyone who prizes the miniature, self-contained dramas of the art-song repertory, Mr. Owens did precisely the right thing: he devoted his recital to German and French songs, with a Wagner rarity as common ground, sort of: "Les Deux Grenadiers" has a French text (actually, a translation of a Heine poem) and quotes the melody of the "Marseillaise" in its final section.

Americans, though, came to prefer forgiving everyone's debts, on the ground that sorting debtors into two systems (bankruptcy for wheelers and dealers, debtors' prison for chumps) is, finally, undemocratic.

But it is not clear that we have any principled grounds for sorting phenomena into levels.

"Events on the ground might sort things out before things are sorted out in the council or in capitals".

Doug and I will be on the ground to sort it all out for you in April.

The garbage receives mixed organic and inorganic domestic wastes, upon arrival to the composting site; the wastes were spread flat on the ground and sorted manually into organic and non-organic fractions.

After the intercept frequency was recorded, vegetation in each of the plots was clipped to ground level, sorted into functional groups, and dried for 24 hours at 60°C before being weighed [ 50, 51].