Sentence examples for making on the ground from inspiring English sources

Even discussions about whether to pursue sanctions against Myanmar in the United Nations have been put on hold, a senior administration official said, "because we have to balance the need for further political pressure against what little progress we're making on the ground".

Their collaboration will "identify knowledge gaps, co-design and co-produce knowledge, and make science more available and accessible to support DRR decision making on the ground" (Aitsi-Selmi et al. 2016, p. 4).

Even in such conditions, I was also able to see the difference we're making on the ground, and the progress made from month to month.

Customs and Border Protection agents — the officers in blue uniforms who stamp passports and inspect travel documents at airports and border crossings — will be the ones making on-the-ground decisions about who gets an exemption and who doesn't.

Two goals of the forum are to help executives anticipate and prepare for risks and to have businesses make on-the-ground contributions in needy countries or regions.

Both of them know what it takes to make on-the-ground changes.

A nine-year-old on the street, his brain free of conflicting data and nervous-making on-the-ground reports, may well have a clearer sense of where the presidential race stands at any given moment than a twenty-something newshound tapping away at his iPhone.

Improvements have also been made on the ground.

But anyway, the decision was made on the ground.

I'm essentially simply rubber-stamping decisions that are made on the ground".

We should hesitate to second-guess decisions they make on the ground.