Sentence examples for ground the idea from inspiring English sources

The Thomas case, I think, puts as common ground the idea that you don't really second-guess the person's - the person's belief, but you can contest sincerity.

After this latest defeat, in which Collingwood was unable to bowl because of a back spasm, sustained while trying to heave the last ball of the England innings out of the ground, the idea is likely to be abandoned.

"I was born in that bubble of excitement, of people going out there and I always thought: when am I going out?" Indeed despite having a demanding career – and young family – to keep her feet firmly on the ground, the idea of space flight is just as exciting as ever.

One way to explain its distinctively political nature is to ground the idea of public reason in the value of justice (Quong 2013; Rawls 1996).

Barash dismisses, on flimsy grounds, the idea that it is the florid advertisements of chimps that need explaining, and not our lack of them.

The Victorian parliament narrowly voted down a similar bill, with the Liberal MP Louise Staley opposing on feminist grounds the idea of someone needing only to sign a statutory declaration that they were male, female or something else to change their birth certificate.

Other scientists see Archaeopteryx as running quickly along the ground, supporting the idea that birds evolved flight by running (the "ground up" hypothesis proposed by Samuel Wendell Williston).

These are symbolic boots on the ground – but the idea that those boots are there to fight Isis is a lie.