sure ground
Example Sentences
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For much of this full-day session Ms Sturgeon was on sure ground, defending her pandemic approach.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
The author is on less sure ground when he discusses Lincoln’s reaction to the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor killed while defending his printing press from a mob in 1837.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2017
Apple is on less sure ground when it argues, as Olson did, that the government can't make it "re-create code" or "change the iPhone."
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2016
Ms. Larson is on sure ground discussing Cage’s aesthetic world, particularly his connection with New York visual artists from the ’40s and ’50s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2012
But beyond this personal superiority which the leaders of the past had, they enjoyed the advantage of standing upon sure ground.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
