Sentence examples for serve as a ground from inspiring English sources

The United States has established contact with the Northern Alliance in the hope that it will serve as a ground force capable of dislodging the radical Islamic Taliban leadership.

Moreover, the acreage elasticity estimates can serve as a ground proofing and robustness check for other studies that estimate worldwide aggregate acreage elasticities (e.g., Haile et al. 2014).

Both of these putative features of introspection have been cited in support of the idea that introspective knowledge can serve as a ground or foundation for other sorts of knowledge.

Let us consider, for instance, the "Nazca bird" nonstationary image which is a 128 × 128 class-image with K = 2 classes that will serve as a ground truth image.

A second electrode was placed in nearby muscle tissue to serve as a ground.

The body of the insect was immobilized with dental wax and a tungsten or silver wire inserted into the abdomen and thorax to serve as a ground electrode.

It's also possible that, as MacRumors' Arnold Kim puts it on Twitter, the metal edge of the connector could effectively serve as a grounding pin, which pushes the number to nine.

The units are joined by a raised platform that serves as a "ground level" above the street.

The vegetation consists chiefly of coconut palms, which were formerly cultivated for copra on plantations; on North Keeling and Horsburgh islands, coarse grass serves as a ground cover.

Ockels served as a ground communicator and liaison-scientist for the crew on board the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-9/Spacelab-1 minsion in 1983.

Mr. McCaughey replaced the zinc plate that fastens to the transom in the stern and serves as a ground for the boat's electrical system.