Sentence examples for odd grounds from inspiring English sources

Once again there is a very decent crowd in, including the former England wicketkeeper turned artist Jack Russell who is flogging his latest book of drawings, this one of the 70 odd grounds he has played on.

Both the US and UK had opposed the entire process, on the odd grounds that the UN's main judicial body for settling legal disputes was not "the appropriate forum to resolve what is a political issue".

According to Bizet they considered him an unsuitable catch: "penniless, left-wing, anti-religious and Bohemian", which Dean observes are odd grounds of objection from "a family bristling with artists and eccentrics".

Klein dismisses as a "propaganda exercise" a referendum held by Boris Yeltsin in which a majority of voters supported his reforms, on the odd ground that it was nonbinding.

Which makes the state an odd staging ground for an election that is often described as all about jobs and the economy.

The main Arsenal firm at that time was multiracial and contained numerous black members – potentially odd common ground on which a committed racist and the club's hooligan element could align.

For odd-n ground-state isomers with 1 < n ≤ 9, one carbon atom of the ring is bonded to a nitrogen atom and the other carbon atom(s) are bonded to a cyano (–CN) group.

Corbyn said: "It sounds odd on two grounds.

But though Mr. Tsai's characters are to some extent representative figures drifting in the existential void, they are also odd, lonely individuals grounded in the noise and clutter of their particular place and time, facing predicaments more often comical than terrifying -- or in the manner of silent films, comical to us and terrifying to them.

There are now 50-odd strays, soiling the grounds and hissing at visitors.

There are captured Israeli tanks jutting up from the ground at odd angles, their hatches burned and broken.