Sentence examples for secure ground from inspiring English sources

As a matter of practice, however, Ravitch is on less secure ground.

However the capital would be heavily defended if it was attacked and strong doubts remain about the ability of the jihadists to enter the city and secure ground.

If James Joyce had been available, I would have sent him a galley, but otherwise I felt we were on very secure ground.

Top features likely to attract female buyers include being a dwelling above the less secure ground floor, offering a 24-hour concierge service and boasting a clean, modern kitchen.

A lot will rest on Sam Warburton's shoulders, as he makes his first Wales appearance since that sending-off and if he and his fellow back-rowers can secure ground control – and if Rhys Priestland can give James O'Connor the lesson he probably still requires in fly-halfery – Warren Gatland's men may reprise their victory of three years ago.

The Supreme Court had never, before Thursday, weighed in on the scope of the recess appointments clause, but Mr Obama's lawyers assured him he was on secure ground in dismissing the gavel-in, gavel-out affairs as shams; the Senate is in recess, they told him, if it isn't doing any real business.

He loved to drive, and managed to sneak onto the secure grounds at Kennedy Airport, where he sped along a runway.

"I feel exactly the same as when I was 18, except with more confidence and more of a secure grounding under my feet.

In the story of modern philosophy, the philosophic subject attempts to discern the nature of reality, to secure grounded knowledge, and to apply this knowledge to control and dominate the object (e.g., nature, other people, ideas, and so on).

Picture it and feel it contained within you, because it is always there helping you to feel secure, grounded and in tune with your own nature.

Daniel Hume was on foot patrol securing ground for local people to vote in the forthcoming Afghan presidential election, his father proudly tells me, when an improvised explosive device set to destroy a nearby armoured vehicle exploded, killing Daniel almost instantly and severely injuring his comrade Sergeant John Bolam, who was walking alongside him.