Sentence examples for shift on the ground from inspiring English sources

Scotland's deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said her campaign's canvassing database showed a "significant shift" on the ground.

She claims that there has been a "major shift" on the ground since Mr Bush's efforts fell flat in 2007.

"Things shift on the ground in wars that it's very hard to perceive from a long distance away".

Senior Western officials said the remarks of Mr. Bogdanov and Mr. Rasmussen were not tied to any major or sudden shift on the ground.

Mr. Annan's letter, as well as statements from senior officials in Washington, Paris and London, all corroborated what Syrian activists were saying inside the country about the lack of any military shift on the ground.

Certainly, the last two weeks have produced an unpredictable shift on the ground, in which the Palestinians' frustration with the slow pace of peace erupted at the same time as officials finally got down to substantive negotiations in Stockholm.

The largest reductions in coca cultivation occurred when the Colombian government shifted its focus to manual, on-the-ground eradiation starting in 2007, sending out teams to yank the bushes from the ground.

With aftershocks jangling nerves, the inmates slept in shifts on the ground, used buckets for toilets and plotted their escape.

There was a lot shifting on the ground in Iowa.

Pollack says that it's unlikely that peace can be reached until there are signifiant military shifts on the ground.

And, as many experts assert, the key shifts on the ground in Iraq happened before a single surge force entered the country.