Sentence examples for was to ground from inspiring English sources

JANE MAYER: Yes, I have seen some of them, and my thoughts were of the total horror of that day, and more specifically, about how close my sister was to ground zero.

A company's grant would depend on three primary factors: how close the business was to ground zero; its size, based on its annual revenues; and its "economic losses" related to 9/11.

Pico's project, part of a search for harmonies connecting all the world's wisdom traditions, was to ground primary doctrines of Christology and trinitarian theology in Cabala, which he traced to the oral Torah confided to Moses and passed on in secret through Esdras and other sages.

He said he had told Operation Migration that the right thing to do was to ground the ultralights.

Last year, when the Mount Redoubt volcano blew up southwest of Anchorage, Alaska Airlines's response was to ground its fleet, divert flights and wrap the engines in the parked planes in plastic.

The point of including the second story, she wrote in the book's introduction, was to ground her philosophical arguments in something more elemental, "the unsettling, stomach-disturbing, conscience-trying unease" of being involved in any death, whether through action, as happened in that laboratory, or acquiescence.

The wristband is to grounding the unit the person.

Just absolutely, you know, the pedal is to the ground.

Keep this list as a reminder of how boring it can be to be grounded.

Instead, our goal was to 'ground truth' some of the opinions we encountered in the literature and at meetings against the experiences of GHR teams to see where opinion and experience intersected in hopes of finding concurrence and thus identifying core competencies and features of GHR.

Have you been to our training ground?