Sentence examples for valuable ground from inspiring English sources

Shallow watering in the summer weakens the grass and usurps valuable ground water.

What the 50-over game has proved here is that in the proper environment of high quality competition it can occupy valuable ground all of its own.

In doing so, it has snatched valuable ground from its rivals.Matching or exceeding Conservative rhetoric on crime and national security has been one of New Labour's aims since its inception.

But he alienated Quebec voters and ceded valuable ground to the separatist Bloc Québécois with cuts to cultural programmes that were popular in that province and with his plans to send criminal offenders as young as 14 to prison.

Manuel Pellegrini's side have won just two of their six league games since the turn of the year, losing valuable ground on Chelsea in the title race; they're now seven points behind.

She gained maximum points for fastest in the flying lap time trial, then slumped to 10th in the points race, where she allowed USA's Hammer and the Canadian Tara Whitten to gain valuable ground.

They argue that nations can provide a valuable grounding for social attachment, identity and meaning in life, and can ground special obligations to strengthen national life and assist co-nationals.

When expansion meant buying the small building next door to the original branch, the valuable ground-floor retail space was leased to Starbucks.

During the 7 years I worked at the Local Authority, I gained a valuable grounding in field ecology through a variety of projects.

The present study provides valuable grounding for the placement of monitoring sites.

By this measure, the country is steadily losing valuable wet ground, said Dr. Joy B. Zedler, the chairwoman of the panel and a botanist at the University of Wisconsin.