Sentence examples for overdue ground from inspiring English sources

The 1976 Aboriginal Land Rights Act, passed under the new prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, set new and overdue ground rules for the collection and management of cultural materials.

"We are long overdue some ground improvements.

And yet, a return to the ground looks overdue.For instance, on only eight days this year has the S&P 500 index moved by more than 1%, compared with 12 times a month in the wake of the dotcom bust, and 11 times a month during the great sell-off in the 1970s (see chart).

You may say some were overdue: in 1996 discrimination on grounds of sex, disability and family status became explicitly illegal; in 2009 the ordinance was expanded to include race.

The ground is enjoying a long overdue renovation and there's a gaggle of good young players coming through.

And some of this is overdue, considering that Facebook has broken new ground around a whole new set of products and parameters in the digital ad market.

The technical ground for this were 11 years of overdue interest payments to its sterling bondholders, due to Spanish monetary laws and the rejection of bondholders' Plan of Compromise by Spain, with England's approval, in 1946.

The Ohio legislature last year took the long overdue step of banning application of manure on frozen ground.

They also backed establishing protected areas in the main breeding grounds.While such action is obviously long overdue, it is far from clear whether ICCAT's roughly 40 member countries will actually vote to do the right thing.

Hundreds of staff are overdue to return since almost a quarter of the industry's fleet was grounded after the Super Puma ditching off Shetland.

That is good, but ground for complacency, which is why the Lib Dems' and Labour's move was overdue.The parties' proposals are much the same.