Sentence examples for the general ground from inspiring English sources

The authorities are in the plaintiffs' favour upon the general ground.

The years of the Dirty War form the general ground of the Pope's striking self-criticism: his experience, one Jesuit told me, was "searing".

Although plaintiffs are correct that the facts of this case do not implicate the privacy interests protected by the Georgia statute, the Georgia statute also can reasonably be viewed as establishing the general ground rules under which persons in Georgia may act with regard to the recording of private conversations, including telephone calls.

Were President Bush to launch a massive attack on Iraq during Congress's August recess on the general ground that Saddam Hussein is a menace, it is a fair bet that the framers would have regarded impeachment, rather than a vote of thanks, as the appropriate response when Congress returned.

In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, for example, companies may omit resolutions on the general grounds that they deal with subjects that are outside the competence of the general meeting.

It argued that Canada and Quebec would be better off without each other, on the general grounds that small is better.

President Karzai, who has spoken up for the general – grounds for suspicion enough – has prevaricated about final approval for the Kandahar mission.

Patrick Milliman, the Wildlife Conservation Society's director of communications and marketing, said, "At first we thought, 'Maybe we don't want to give away the tour,' " which cost $3 in addition to the $7.75 admission to the general grounds.

I ranked states by the McCain margin in 2008, and decided to define the swing states as the range in that ranking from Missouri to New Mexico, on the general grounds that Obama ain't gonna take Montana, and despite our loud governor, I very much doubt that Romney can take New Jersey.

The existence of a Glomar doctrine does not prevent however the existence of a public debate on the general grounds that would make a Glomar response legitimate.

The word is only slightly more than a century old, though the words sympathy, kindness, pity, compassion, fellow-feeling, and others covered the same general ground before Edward Titchener coined it in 1909.