Sentence examples for grounds may be from inspiring English sources

The release of Megrahi on compassionate grounds may be seen by some as evidence of our humanitarianism; others may view it as yet further disconfirmation of Margaret Thatcher's sometime dictum that "we do not appease dictators".

Along the way, stories are told about the land: where water is sourced, where the animals and the plants are, where traditional burial and hunting grounds may be, and why mining on this land must not go ahead.

They also seem to have a keen memory for where the best foraging grounds may be found in the spring, the optimal mix of grasses and willow twigs to maximize the performance of the microbes at work in their ruminant gut.

Whoever calls for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds may be disappointed.

But soon the 16-room inn and its 108 acres of grounds may be closed to all but a few swells, including William C. Ford Jr. and his wife, Lisa, and Stephen Burke, chief operating officer of Comcast.

Blocking a tweet on IP grounds may be less controversial than removing someone's (hateful) opinion, but both show how Twitter's platform has shifted its stance on the flow of tweets as it seeks to scale up and attract a more mainstream user-base.

Be careful – the ground may be slippery.

The largest proving ground may be Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park, Ill.

Now, the ground may be shifting beneath Mangini's feet.

A high moral ground may be on quicksand.

But our Scarlet U persuades us that the ground may be shifting.