Sentence examples for raise ground from inspiring English sources

U.P.S., based in Atlanta, said it would raise its air express rates 3.7percentt for one-, two-, and three-day delivery and raise ground delivery rates 3.1percentt beginning Feb. 5. U.P.S. changed its residential surcharge to $1.05 a package from $1 and raised international export rates 2.9percentt.

The dry zone consists of medieval backfill intended to raise ground that was too wet.

The RCP uses a coordinated approach in its outer-dike area that includes spatial planning to raise ground elevations, dike reinforcements, and other design and retrofit measures, including rewiring lower floors of homes to make them more flood-resistant.

Just like the Create-A-Family step, go through all the buttons and demonstrate how to raise ground levels, press Shift to fill an entire room with paint or floors, and put in a roof.

This suggests that other issues are at stake in the concept of nuisance species rather than just the problems they raise, grounded mostly in ecological or economic arguments.

The town contained a citadel on raised ground (acropolis) and a marketplace (agora).

"Offroad" mode raises ground clearance nearly two and a half inches.

My flat is on the raised ground floor, and the area below makes the windows difficult to access.

Mr. Bell, the lodge's secretary, stands beside the rubble on its raised ground, his arms crossed, his eyes scanning the ruined horizon.

I stood outside and admired the long sash windows on the raised ground floor and the two olive trees, wistfully aspiring to the Mediterranean.

In antiquity, as now, the most favoured location of settlements was on slightly raised ground near the riverbank, where transport and water were easily available and flooding was unlikely.