Sentence examples for note on the ground from inspiring English sources

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On the ground.

Events on the ground are where things are actually happening, not at a distance.

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A tiny framed note on the ground floor reads, "Our historic 1906 parish house in in urgent need of preservation.

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Editor's note: The following on-the-ground report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for Microsoft.

Harris-Perry nothatthat while on-the-ground fighting in Iraq has largely ended, she said that there are still special forces units and drone strikes being carried out in war zones — a development she said indicated the country's never-ending state of war.

At a February House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Michael Steinbach, the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism, questioned whether the US had the ability to collect adequate intelligence to screen new Syrian entries, noting the lack of on-the-ground intelligence collection in the war-torn country.

They shouted 'name!' When I said Detective Sergeant Norwell Roberts, the tall one replaced his truncheon and buttoned up his shirt, the little one threw his notes on the ground; they did everything bar cleaning my shoes.

After the currency reforms, angry citizens threw anonymous notes on the ground criticising the debacle.

Waiting in a long queue for precious makeshift refrigeration, residents started leaving chalk-written notes on the ground to advertise businesses, events or complaints.

Partially eaten fruits and leftover stones of the fruits abandoned by the fruit bats were noted on the ground just outside the window of the living room or on the roof of the house.

Between their fists and the blades of grass and mud flying everywhere, he saw one of the boys empty his satchel – all his school things, his half-eaten lunch, pages and pages of music notes on to the ground, then unzip his pants and piss on the papers.

But as the leaders noted, events on the ground are moving fast.

With only weeks until my firstborn child leaves for college, I struggled late into the night, taking notes on all the ground I wanted to cover before he left.

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