Sentence examples for unimportant ground from inspiring English sources

The relegation of fighter units to what appeared to be strategically unimportant ground attack missions led to a crisis in morale that precipitated the so-called "Morotai Mutiny" in April 1945, when eight of Cobby's senior pilots, including Australia's leading ace in the war, Group Captain Clive Caldwell, tendered their resignations in protest.

Along with the other members of the board, he reviewed the findings of the inquiry by Justice John Vincent Barry into the "Morotai Mutiny", which had involved senior pilots of the Australian First Tactical Air Force (No. 1 TAF) attempting to resign their commissions to protest the relegation of RAAF fighter squadrons to strategically unimportant ground attack missions.

He however dismisses them as unimportant on the ground that we do not normally name them, speak of them, or quantify over them.

That's why networks have mostly offered Saturdays: that night has become a dumping ground for unimportant programming.

Although Hitchens speaks of "painful self-criticisms," he settles instead for flippant zingers, elsewhere admitting that his "unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity".

Although Hitchens speaks of "painful self-criticisms," he settles instead for flippant zingers, elsewhere admitting that his "unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity". It turns out that he doesn't lack self-awareness, and it's nearly tragic that he's unable to act on it.

If it was sufficiently unimportant that one painful moment was grounds to give it up, then we had made the wrong estimation".

It would nevertheless be wrong to dismiss the findings of Deng et al [ 1] or those of Lakhani et al [ 3] on the grounds that they are uninteresting, unimportant or simply incorrect.

As high-performing professionals, if we're not standing our ground, we run the risk of being consumed with urgent but often unimportant requests.

In regions where peat and fast-growing ground mosses are scarce, sinking and overgrowth are, however, likely to be unimportant factors in dead-wood ecology.

Small, unimportant differences will appear statistically significant, and large and important differences might escape detection on grounds that they are "insignificant" statistically speaking according to some censorious rule cooked up by a statistician or bureaucrat.