sure ground
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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
But then there’s the other half of the story, and here the show is on less sure ground.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
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
We will go upon sure ground, you, I, and your precious aunt and uncle.
From Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel by Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold