Sentence examples for the firm ground from inspiring English sources

See how marshy the firm ground of principle has become?

It sounds like your mother provided the firm ground on which your family was built.

His chosen terrain was the firm ground of real and recognisable places, especially the County Derry landscape of his childhood.

The trainer of the three-year-old Nathaniel, John Gosden, considered running the colt in the Arc, but decided against it because of the firm ground.

Brian Meehan saddles his Breeders' Cup Turf winner, Dangerous Midge, in the Sheema Classic but Rewilding should make his class tell provided he handles the firm ground.

But it will also proceed from the firm ground of the national interest, not from the interests of an illusory international community.

George Balanchine built his new American ballet on the firm grounds of the Russian classicism in which he was trained as a child.

He has a lot of pace and could do well on the firm grounds of Australia".

That puts "Evacuate Earth" on the firmest ground (so to speak).

In the end, Hample's cranky tone suggests a book-length version of "Because I said so" — not the firmest ground for teaching anybody anything.

The fact that the balance can change (and, I argue, has changed) over time is perhaps the firmest ground for another shared conviction: that we are not helpless about our fate.