How To Use Grounds In A Sentence

The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. Times, Sunday Times
Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
The transitional zones between low backgrounds of W Mo group elements and iron group and chalcophile elements are the favorable enriched zones of uranium deposits.
Dunstan: Dunstan: “What happens if the program administrator refuses to certify that the defendant “completed” the program on the grounds that the defendant refused to agree with certain teachings?” The Volokh Conspiracy » Stringent Constitutional Limits on Anger Management Classes, Anti-Drug/Alcohol-Abuse Classes, or Even Traffic School as Alternatives to Prosecution?

The students are drawn from very mixed social backgrounds.
_ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
It results in a rich mix of students from various backgrounds with different experiences of education. Times, Sunday Times
We will fight them on the landing grounds. Times, Sunday Times
Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.
One club rejected her application for membership on the grounds that she was too famous. Times, Sunday Times
It means more opportunities for young people to mix with those from different backgrounds. The Sun
Situated only eight miles from Manchester's bustling city centre and with superb views over the Pennines, the elegant Norton Grange Hotel at Rochdale offers fine four-star accommodation within landscaped grounds.
She especially wants to give more people from humble backgrounds a chance of climbing the social ladder. The Sun
You can put the 'blackie' up in some quarter of the house where he can move about at will without disturbing any of your own servants, and can get in and out at all hours; he will be useful, you know, in prowling about the grounds at night and ascertaining if the lady really does go to bed when she retires to her room. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
Non-governmental organizations were formed to oppose the pumping, and in 2001 the federal government launched an investigation into the company on the grounds it was violating constitutional prohibitions on demineralizing water.
Despite these unexceptionable advantages, critics have objected to the land tax on the following grounds.
Some weeds, such as chickweed, common groundsel, and bittercress, may germinate and grow at almost any time of year.
From plain backgrounds at the start, they moved on to intricate landscapes - landscapes now completely disassociated from the Impressionism that first reigned at Coyoacan. Printmaking - From Revolution To Establishment
By the time he was a teenager in the 1950s, he was spending all his spare time at Recreation Park, cleaning boots, helping the groundsman, travelling to away games on the team bus.
Tours of the park outside with a bunker in the grounds. Times, Sunday Times
To the front and rear of the house are lawns and shrubberies, but the grounds also contain two acres of young trees, a wildlife pond, mature woodland and banks of rhododendrons.
I am now convinced that although he is unsound in his views there are not sufficient grounds for proceeding against him.
Are we going to see small clouds of dust when fighting on dusty grounds?
He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling. Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
Once a year the up-river migration of the salmon heading for their spawning grounds provides a great feast.
Defendants file massive summary judgment motions, seeking to dismiss every claim on various grounds.
Rivalry is a groundswell word, suggesting turbulence by its very sound.
The organic materials in grounds, gilding, paint films, and varnishes become embrittled with age and can no longer flex to accommodate movement in the support.
She will blame the couple's very different social backgrounds for the differences that eventually led to the collapse of their marriage.
One goal was to return fish to traditional spawning grounds in the upper reaches of the Clearwater tributaries, strengthening natural fish runs.
We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets.
Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimming unruly bushes.
Tuxedo-clad waiters brought champagne and frou-frou hors d' oeuvres to the thousand guests sprawled throughout the grounds.
If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs. Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance.
The war for market share will not be fought on the traditional battlegrounds of the retail branch networks, but in cyberworld.
But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.
BBC | Oil price "grounds North Korea fleet" Não é só no bolso dos automobilistas que o disparo nos preços do petróleo se faz sentir: a força aérea norte-coreana está practicamente paralisada; o país não tem dinheiro para adquirir combustível para pôr a voar a sua frota de velhas aeronaves de origem soviética e chinesa. Leituras
Luke had decided to take a long ride across the estate's grounds to the meadow in the east limit and set a picnic for both of us there.
Is discriminating on the grounds of sex more acceptable than discriminating on the basis of skin colour?
To many, it means students of all colors and backgrounds will populate our nations' universities in harmony.
I also have a writ to stop any further logging here on grounds that it'll damage the environment for mariculture, and for historical reasons as well.
Participants will ‘test drive’ products and services, including indoor aquatics, sports and fitness, grounds maintenance, and much more.
They also found that there were strong links between the speed of pupils' progress and their socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Nowadays, schoolyards and community playgrounds and public parks are barren on a weekday afternoon.
But it was restored as a chapel in 1662 by Charles II for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza, who established a friary in its grounds.
She especially wants to give more people from humble backgrounds a chance of climbing the social ladder. The Sun
In the minor arcana, Mars is assigned on cabbalistic grounds to the fives.
To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality? Narrative Strategies
Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.
Even the greenest and purest, seemingly untouched fields were breeding grounds filled with fermenting disease and devastation.
It would be the sheerest hypocrisy for these same Democrats to give President Obama a pass on such criticism, merely on the grounds that he is of their party. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Zombie Attack!
In all, twenty three men who are based in towns in Mayo were dismissed on the grounds that they were not suitable for the work involved.
The University is considering plans to introduce more rigorous target quotas for admissions of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Stanley grounds the principle of privacy on respect for persons as active agents or choosers.
The groundsmen were busy clearing every last flake of snow Inside the orchestra was practising in the ballroom; the photographers. WEB OF DREAMS
But while the Georgian house has been kept in peak condition, the 260 acres of landscaped grounds have become overgrown and wild.
Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
Orange-coloured grounds may be formed by mixing vermilion or red lead with King's yellow, or orange lake or red orpiment (? realgar) will make a brighter orange ground than can be produced by any mixture. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
Rahman uses dreams as a device to fill in the characters' backgrounds.
But some younger white South Africans, especially those from anglophone backgrounds with higher education, went searching for new identities, not least Australian, British, and Canadian.
In spite of their very different backgrounds, they immediately became friends.
These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road.
Probably on a Lunar base, but maybe groundside, I wasn't fussy about the details. Archive 2006-02-01
The problem is the rise of global markets to satisfy the demands of people remote from the fishing grounds.
Locals have achieved great feats despite rather than because of the state of the district's sports grounds.
We oppose segregation on religious grounds.
Because of their varied backgrounds, these teachers and professionals often use different theoretical and applied didactic and pedagogic practices.
We're the generation raised on Stephen King, The Shining or "shinning" if you're Groundskeeper Willie, Freddie and Jason slasher movies, and so on, but make a movie with some little English kids possessed by the spirits of dead lovers and we get all freaked out. Archive 2005-11-01
With increasing globalisation we have become familiar with a range of names from diverse cultural backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
It is shared by religious believers and non-believers of very different social backgrounds and in very different countries.
They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks.
Once or twice a year, give your holly a treat: an inch-deep mulch layer of used coffee grounds.
An action has been taken against Mr Warden Harding, on behalf of the almsmen, by a gentleman acting solely on public grounds, and it is to be argued that Mr Harding takes nothing but what he received as a servant of the hospital, and that he is not himself responsible for the amount of stipend given to him for his work. The Warden
Sex discrimination excludes discrimination on the grounds of marital status.
We are a squad of many different nationalities and backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
It is, however, much more common in alluvial grounds than among primitive and pyrogenous rocks. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
We need an online forum where young men with varied interests and different backgrounds can discuss and learn from each other's lives.
Stuart Clark: Having levelled the series, it's important that the MCG and SCG groundsmen do not serve up 'a road or two' and help England to get Graeme Swann into the game Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi
All the grounds require reasonable suspicion on the part of a constable.
Mr. FELDSTEIN: Well, one of the ironies is that the two men, Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson, had so much in common in their backgrounds, despite their mutual hatred. Nixon's Failed Attempts At 'Poisoning The Press'
Liverpool chairman Tom Werner says Everton groundshare idea is 'dead' Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has moved to kill off any prospect of a future groundshare with Everton, declaring the issue "dead". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In the end, James concedes that modern Celts exist as a legitimate ethnic group on the grounds that they are self-naming and have a shared sense of difference and history.
Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds.
Candidates from government, commerce or academic backgrounds are invited to apply.
Police arrested the threesome on the grounds of selling illegal lottery tickets and brought them to the police station.
There are certainly grounds to wonder about this conceit.
The full desiderata of resort luxury is here, including huge seafront grounds private villas and fine dining - not to mention a spa where the healing hands are exceptional.
Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to encourage discrimination on the grounds of race or colour.
There is a class of persons (happily not quite so numerous as formerly) who think it enough if a person assents undoubtingly to what they think true, though he has no knowledge whatever of the grounds of the opinion, and could not make a tenable defence of it against the most superficial objections. On Liberty
I heard little of the nervous chatter the boys made while we returned to the Academy's inner grounds; in my mind, I was making a list.
The Penal Code of 1977 only allows abortions on health grounds or because of pregnancies as a result of rape.
In the light of this provision, we do not accept that H has grounds for contesting the element of indecency in his conviction.
You have no grounds for complaint.
The legislation containing a ban will be on public health grounds, a policy area within the competence of the Scottish parliament.
Try the mango pudding, which came on steaming dry ice, but skip the affogato, which tastes like coffee grounds mixed with milk and sugar. Finicky Traveler: The Gramercy Park Hotel
Once an imperial palace and presidential residence, it has gorgeous grounds and now houses the natural history museum. The Sun
The professor claimed that he should not have to appear before the commission on grounds of his age and ill health.
The grounds around the house are a maze of shelters and sandbags. Times, Sunday Times
Merseyside, in 1958, a disaster that still haunts the argument for de-accession, the decisions then made on grounds of fashion rather than quality. Evening Standard - Home
Every ounce saved was important and they didn't even take blankets or greatcoats and they slept as best they could in rough bamboo shelters with only a groundsheet to keep out the mountain cold.
Survival hopes were revived after a deal was struck by chairman Nigel Hughes to continue the groundshare next season with Cheltenham Town.
What legal grounds are there for indicting him for treason?
Note 62: Fishing admirals had the first choice of fishing rooms in harbors for any given season, and certain coves were repeatedly selected because they were well situated in terms of shore facilities and proximity to fishing grounds. Gutenber-e Help Page
I am fuzzy as to the grounds we would have for such action, however.
And it says the decision not to assign a psychiatric nurse was made on medical and not financial grounds.
She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.
The book says much of the author, it reads: ‘To the Irish men and women and children who lie in unhallowed grounds in the sugar cane fields of Barbados’.
During a radio interview, Mr Waters said the newspaper spiked his column on the grounds the article was libellous and inaccurate.
The city was chosen against the advice of consultants, who ruled it out on cost grounds.
The end result is that ‘the benefits can be seen in children from all socio-economic backgrounds’.
Rossini's four-act opera has been compressed into 90 minutes and features a cast of seven local actors with musical backgrounds.
On the other hand, to the extent that a constructivist position can be transformed into a position that gayness is a "free" choice, it can be the grounds for arguing that the choice ought not to be made (Sedgwick, 41). Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality
In other words, he bases his argument on the grounds of biological essentialism, which will connect him to African Americans.
In Winchester a single bugle player sounded the Last Post before the cathedral grounds fell silent.
As well as having some teachers stranded at home, headteachers were also concerned about health and safety on icy playgrounds.
The landlords disputed that contention on two grounds. Times, Sunday Times
Some firms prefer candidates with business backgrounds because business courses emphasize quantitative analytical skills.
The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog.
I don't see why you think that's at all surprising or criticizable on grounds of race. It's a simple principle, really.
This was frequently denounced by critics of the democracy on the grounds that it introduced a pecuniary motive.
Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
European law also provides protection from discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief and disability.
He said there was a groundswell of opinion among backbenchers, and said he had been involved with a statement released detailing the plans.
But ” and this is a fundamental difference between the situation in physics and the situation in history ” a historian may protest against the inclusion of data in the material to be colligated on grounds of interest or value in a way that is foreign to the method of physicists when they criticize each other. Letting Go
Contestants come from all over the country, from many and varied backgrounds.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
The photo was accompanied by a story about the children's origins and backgrounds and details of their adoption by American families.
Nineteen children's playgrounds may be facing the axe in the latest round of Lancaster City Council cost-cuts.
The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
Dorset Police said its investigation into the tragedy would look at whether there were any grounds for criminal proceedings.
That is because grounds will have some 'special double wide' seats for those supporters who are, er, big-boned. The Sun
The Central New York region boasts a highly eclectic butter sculpture collection at the Fairgrounds.
The appellants raised other grounds in addition to that which occasioned the reference.
The property's grounds include manicured lawns that roll down to the river and acres of woodland. Times, Sunday Times
After the house was demolished in the Seventies for new housing, the remaining grounds ran wild until all that was left of the original wood was self-seeded sycamore trees and dead elms.
Outdoor Soccer attracted bumper crowds and ran to a very successful conclusion at the KDL and Park grounds.
Since the field of gravity wave interferometry is still so new, the researchers involved come from diverse backgrounds.
The 'correct' standard to set for claims to knowledge is to be decided pragmatically, on grounds of practical convenience.
Demand outstrips supply and in 1934 he goes to the toymakers Parker Brothers who turn him down on the grounds that it contains 52 ‘fundamental errors’.
Seventy percent of the world's most valuable fisheries, and 11 of 15 major fishing grounds, are either overfished or fished to the limit according to the United Nations.
Most of his friends were from similar middle-class backgrounds.
But that doesn't justify this behavior, which is indefensible on several grounds.
Pro-abortion groups also oppose the protocol on the grounds that it is too restrictive.
We made the most of truck stops, showgrounds, and just about anywhere else you could park a bus and not get a ticket. True Spirit
The grounds were quiet because only half the usual number of tickets had been sold. Times, Sunday Times
The property's grounds include manicured lawns that roll down to the river and acres of woodland. Times, Sunday Times
In any case, his scooter is still in the groundsman's shed. Times, Sunday Times
I have the copy of a letter, said I, from this Brand, in which he has taken great liberties with my character, and with that of the most unblamable lady in the world, which he grounds upon information that you, Madam, have given him. Clarissa Harlowe
Plans to build 35 houses in the grounds of a former school in a conservation area are likely to go ahead despite objections from residents.
White calms the patterns, and brown on the footboard and headboard, as well as the sisal rug, relaxes and grounds the white.
There's a shuttle bus from the hotel to the exhibition grounds.
Although the players come from a variety of musical backgrounds, there is a strong Birmingham connection.
Children from deprived areas are more likely to suffer tooth decay than those from better-off backgrounds.
The flag remains on the State House grounds and the NAACP is still conducting an economic boycott here. Black Republican Set To Make History In S.C.
It has been suggested, and apparently on good grounds, that the spore membrane consists of two layers, the exosporium and the endosporium. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
The public certainly has a right to oppose scientific research on non-scientific grounds.
Abolitionists didn’t suddenly figure out scientifically that Africans were as intelligent as whites, and then fight against slavery; they fought against slavery and, AGAINST science as it then stood on the grounds of anideal. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
He said the exhibition had been a massive success with people queuing into the park grounds.
Self also neglects to provide headings or subheads on the grounds that these were coined by sub-editors and were therefore not worthy of inclusion.
There will be different proficiencies between individual workers on the grounds; this is true for harvesters of all horticultural crops.
All contained in a palatial home set in beautiful grounds. The Sun
He said the two suspects, a Pakistani student known as XC and an Algerian referred to as U who face deportation on the grounds they pose a risk to national security, would remain in custody while he sought permission to appeal the verdict. Reuters: Top News
You know, when you take a country to war on particular grounds, and those grounds prove baseless, the ethical thing to do is to resign.
Tents and marquees have traditionally been used in the grounds of hotels and country clubs for special functions such as receptions and parties.
And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success. Pneumatologia
The first section of the dissertation studies the lawful grounds that entitle the parties to cancel a voyage charter party respectively under Chinese law and English law.
In the grounds stood The Little House, a gift from the people of Wales built of Welsh materials to perfect two-thirds scale.
Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.
Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him. Nightside The Long Sun
He too has appealed to the majority on the grounds of its social conservatism, has imagined foreign conspiracies and has interfered with the judiciary. Times, Sunday Times
Officers have recommended the scheme should be refused on the grounds it would be unneighbourly and an eyesore.
At this critical point, rumors circulated that Sitting Bull had recrossed the Canadian line bound for the Yellowstone hunting grounds.
York District Hospital managers today appealed for visitors who have suffered sickness and diarrhoea to stay away from its grounds.
Requests by the defence to allow the three men to leave the country on security grounds pending this appeal have been denied.
The GOP Smear that Obama is eltist is frankly ridiculous Barack & Michelle both came from firmly blue collar backgrounds, Michelle's dad was a dustmen for goodness sake. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
Given such a groundswell of popular support, it may be little wonder that powerful forces in Westminster have endorsed the project. Times, Sunday Times
So saying, the Robin flew from the thorn-tree to another part of the grounds, where he could amuse himself without interruption; and the Tortoise began to hustle under the leaves and rubbish again, with a view to taking his nap. Parables From Nature
Situated on substantial private grounds with potential for an additional house, this as new split-level is in impeccable order throughout.
Sadly, the remains of the mill itself were demolished on safety grounds in the late 1950s, but the mill lades, complete with sluice gate, survive and form an attractive feature of the gardens.
It's the kind of sensation that people pay money to suffer in fairgrounds.
Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent.
Many a theist would grant that creaturely causes lack necessary efficaciousness on the very grounds that Malebranche had presented, but still argue that this does not mean that they lack causal powers. Occasionalism
We just come from different dancing backgrounds. The Sun
Bristol has spent more than 18m since 2006 on recruiting and supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Now it offers a plethora of bars, restaurants, cabarets, clubs and sports grounds.
What's more, although an argument is made based on the area being part of Taiwan's traditional fishing grounds, that argument is given little space.
The first event for the bicentennial will be a free horse show beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Henderson County Fairgrounds. Courierpress.com Stories
So, the cleanest, most ethical holier-than-thou Congress ever is now defending the unprecedented adoption of ram-down rules for a radical, multitrillion-dollar program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of “two wrongs make it right”? Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
The immediate grounds for the inference are not facts about horses and riding, but the linguistic or structural parallelism between the statements ˜white horses are horses™ and ˜riding white horses is riding horses™. Mohist Canons
Tautog, sea bass, and cunners share the feeding grounds of mussel beds and other small crustaceans.
This case is the one encountered herein, and therefore the method used to code the outgroup stands on solid theoretical grounds.
On the grounds of weeding out incompetent and unqualified staff, every teacher in the city was dismissed by the municipal authorities and ordered to reapply for their positions.
We were all branded working class yobs and louts, despite our diverse backgrounds, and were shepherded in and out of grounds across the country by police on horseback as if we were criminals.
Our company recognizes, appreciates and benefits from the ideas generated by people from a wide variety of backgrounds and we strive to reflect the communities we serve.
I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. — A sentimental journey through France and Italy
Discrimination on grounds of race will not be tolerated.
Participating in the agoge regimen was considered prestigious and even non-Spartan families from aristocratic backgrounds, desired for their sons to be included, as agoge consistently turned out strong and powerful leaders. Becky Lee: 21st Century Spartans : Does Violence Beget Violence?

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