Sentence examples for grounds rather than the from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, they are overwhelmingly from the eastern provinces, the army's historic recruiting grounds, rather than the south where the Taliban comes from.

Instead, Farrand served an apprenticeship with Charles Sprague Sargent, founder of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, learning botanical names and how to fit a plan to the grounds rather than the other way around.

He built luminosity into his canvases by painting on white grounds (rather than the traditional black), and he used color as color and paint as paint more directly than anyone before him.

In a piece headlined The coverage of his death has been crass and repugnant he railed against the way in which most papers saw the death in terms of controversy over his early release on compassionate grounds rather than "the extreme doubts over the safety of his conviction".

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years-long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle' s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

Take his insistence on living in the Casa Santa Marta guesthouse on the Vatican grounds, rather than the papal penthouse of the Apostolic Palace.

Both colleges said they were opposing the subpoenas on procedural grounds, rather than contesting the association's right to the information.

It is understood the decision was taken because of safety concerns around the ground rather than the pitch being unplayable.

Mr Gingrich, who looks in the mirror as much as anyone, has realised that American voters prefer their presidents to seize the middle ground rather than the extremes.

The inquest heard that all of the men died from multiple injuries probably caused by the aircraft's impact with the ground rather than the explosion.

While it is clear spittle left his mouth, it is possible to argue that it was a reflex gesture aimed at the ground rather than the Newcastle player.