Sentence examples for tough ground from inspiring English sources

Those who suggested that, on past experience, Afghanistan was tough ground for invaders seemed to have been proved wrong.

For the grownups, life is a daily grind of planting unsprouting seeds in tough ground, contracting various respiratory infections and sleeping in straw huts huddled against other stinky folk for warmth.

"Goldington Road is a tough ground to go to.

Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay said: "It was just good to have another three points, coming to a tough ground.

"[The] City Ground's always a tough ground to go to so obviously the game on Thursday will be tough.

To this aim, a novel passive bio-inspired limb-like suspension system is developed in this study, which is completely controlled in a purely passive manner, but can achieve high loading capacity, high stability, high trafficability on tough ground, similar to a multi-leg insects or crabs.

"We showed we can come away to tough grounds and tough atmospheres and play well.

"What we have done is reaffirmed to ourselves that we can come to tough grounds and find a way to win when the pressure is really on with players who can step up".

Matt Rees made a great individual play to stop the run — gobbling up a tough grounder on the defensive end, clearing the ball himself then rearing back and unleashing an overhand crank shot that stuck the top corner.

After happy months in the South Seas, Bennet and Tyerman -- whose growing friendship is a pleasurable subtext to this book -- moved on to tougher ground.

Expedition leader Tom Avery said: "The conditions were right, but it's tough going on hard ground - our sleds and our knees took a real pounding".