Sentence examples for standing ground from inspiring English sources

"By December 2014, the Afghan National Security Forces will be well able to take on the task of executing an ongoing counterinsurgency campaign," a senior NATO official said at a news conference called under standing ground rules of anonymity.

For now, the neighborhood watch coordinator stood under the bright sun that had replaced the previous night's obscuring rain and told his side of a two-sided story about standing ground, and losing it.

Freed from the pursuit of achieving the impossible, writers have instead been inspired to calibrate Chekhov's work through their own standing ground.

On the other hand, motion is charmingly arrested in Benjamin Bufano's "Small Standing Ground Squirrel," a stone likeness simplified down to the essence of squirrelhood.

The lawsuit was dismissed on standing grounds.

The only remotely plausible unanimous decision is dismissal on standing grounds in the Proposition 8 case.

The court cowardly dismissed the case 5-4 on "standing" grounds, and never ruled on the merits.

Most observers say a ruling dismissing the case on standing grounds is more likely in the Proposition 8 case.

I struggled with that example, because I know it's a complex case and the court decided it on standing grounds.

A dismissal on standing grounds could lead to some messy follow-on litigation in California but will probably effectively allow same-sex marriages there.

If the Justices ask questions about standing at the oral argument next month, it's a good clue that a dismissal of the case on standing grounds is at least a possibility.