Sentence examples for managing to ground from inspiring English sources

Ike Davis struck out four times in his first five at-bats, managing to ground out to third the only time he put the ball in play.

Elsewhere in the north, Syrian forces are slowly managing to capture rebel-held ground around the divided city of Aleppo, and might soon surround it.

Its key AHL fund lost 2.2% so far in 2012 and is 14% below its peak performance, but its GLG managed fund managed to gain ground.

Merrill Lynch managed to gain ground because much of the merger activity was in more traditional sectors and not in technology, where the bank has struggled.

Even with the French offensive, Islamists have managed to gain ground, defeating Malian soldiers and opening a southern front just two hundred and fifty miles from the capital, Bamako.

Bubbly managed to gain ground quickly by being not tied to any mobile smartphone platform, and instead existing as a voice service that could work with ordinary feature phones.

ICE has also managed to regain ground that it lost in the lead-up to Obama's proposed changes to deportation policy.

Elvis managed to break ground in a number of ways, from bringing African-American influences to pop music to simply gyrating his hips.

Exploiting the hurt religious feelings of the Roman Catholic population under Protestant occupation and organizing Polish Lithuanian military leaders in the Tyszowce Confederation, John II Casimir Vasa managed to regain ground in 1656.

Still, old school pockets of strangeness have managed to hold ground and new bastions of cheap, DIY leanings keep cropping up in neighborhoods from SoMa to the Dogpatch to the Mission.

Exasperation seems to be equally divided: Lithuania recently broke new ground in managing to be rude to two visiting senators (probably the most pro-Lithuanian people in Congress).