Sentence examples for which could ground from inspiring English sources

But those eruptions are tiny compared with a Laki-sized eruption, which could ground airplanes for 6 months or more, says Alan Robock, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

"A storm can cause a shift in a sandbar overnight," he said, which could grind a ferry to a halt.

The omnivorous Megaconus foraged by night and is named for the large mounds on its premolars, which could grind tough plant material at a point when other mammal lineages were still largely insect-eaters.

"Let's lay down some rules" we could say to the rest of the world, and then we could all start creating a few definitions and banning certain tactics (like, for instance, a cyber attack on hospital management software -- which could grind hospitals' capacity to deal with emergencies to an absolute standstill).

Leonard Koren, who writes books about design and aesthetics, said that for a relationship to thrive in close quarters, the couple must acquiesce to the constraints of the space, which could otherwise grind them down.

This inkstone was designed in this way, because the contemporary inks were mainly formed in small pellets, which could not be ground directly against an inkstone without the help of another smaller grinding stone [5, 6].

Considerations of human dignity could ground an objection to research in which the subject possesses the dignity-grounding capacities at the start of the research, but then has them eliminated or diminished during the course of the research.

Cross-legged on a cushion at Daniel's feet, she was leaning lightly against him, as if she could ground the tension quivering in his right foot, which was balanced across his left knee.

They could ground aircraft".

If any modality in isolation ever could ground spatial experience, audition could.

The Academy Award-winning actress could ground a sock-puppet production of "Hamlet in Space".