Sentence examples for poor ground from inspiring English sources

Many have been resettled on poor ground.

That is poor ground on which to build a case for quitting the euro.

Often these floods assume catastrophic dimensions caused by the poor ground retention of the rainfall.

Britain's North American colonies, by contrast, made poor ground for extractive institutions; indigenous populations were too dispersed to enslave.

This is poor ground on which to build an army of illiterate volunteers while in a hurry.

This technique allows safe excavation even in poor ground conditions by creating longitudinal arching parallel to the tunnel axis.

Bringing a perennial supplement of resistance to the ground, this technique permits to use poor grounds in a sensitive environment.

The cast on Jimmy Stewart's broken leg in Hitchcock's "Rear Window" leaves the poor grounded photojournalist with nothing to do with his appetite for adventure but look out the window and spy on the neighborhood theater.

A parametric study developed with the proposed procedure for poor grounds, from the geotechnical point of view, has led to useful indications on the courses of action to take (integrative structural works or ground reinforcement) when it is possible that the phenomenon of machine sinking could occur.

As well as boosting demand, these schemes have helped to raise standards (because beneficiaries must reach minimum entry requirements) and cut drop-out rates.Even so, more than half of students in higher education drop out before completing their courses, hobbled by money worries, a poor grounding in the basics and hectic schedules (most courses are part-time at night).

It's probably fair to say that, if you take away our great mutual enthusiasm for his perfumes, we have very little in common (Creed has a shockingly poor grounding in the history of Manchester United, and I have somehow never quite managed to warm to dressage).