Sentence examples for vital ground from inspiring English sources

Labour, the Lib Dems and the Conservatives are losing vital ground to Nigel Farage's Ukip.

"It's tough going because the Taliban have rightly identified Helmand as their vital ground.

"It has been very tough, very hard fighting because Helmand is for the Taliban their vital ground.

It jumped into every territory available because it was anxious that it would lose what would turn out to be vital ground.

It was clear to us that the Taliban had identified Helmand and Kandahar as their vital ground, and that they would throw everything into the struggle there.

In the late kickoff, third-placed Middlesbrough lost vital ground when they were humbled 3-0 at home to Aston Villa.

One is Hollywood Bogus, the other International Art-House Bogus, and the latter, in my book, is more galling – especially when it comes from as talented a director as Mexico's Alejandro Gon-zalez Iñarritu, who made the vital, ground-breaking Amores Perros.

The depiction of the petty irritations of office life, the flirtations between colleagues, the odd conversations ("How would you murder me?") one can have with a spouse without breaking the rhythm of daily life – all this gives Killing Eve a vital grounding in reality and an enduring sense of intimacy, beneath the glamour and gloss of the locations and Villanelle's wardrobe of designer disguises.

The vital middle ground will shy away from Santorum.

Faulkner's grandad was vital RAF ground crew, one of the unsung heroes.

Normandy was a vital testing ground in the political battle between the allies and de Gaulle.