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grounds

The grounds for something is the basis of it. The grounds of a place is a group of areas of land that make up a larger area of land. Please enjoy yourselves on the grounds of the castle.

grounds

(= evidence) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling (= yard) the enclosed land around a house or other building it was a small house with almost no yard a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) (= cause, reason) a justification for something existing or happening he had no cause to complain they had good reason to rejoice dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds

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Simple sentences

There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.
That doesn't give you grounds for complaining.
A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.
The clerk was dismissed on the grounds of her rude manners.
Do you have any grounds for thinking so?
A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
My nephew was excused on the grounds of his youth.
He has good grounds for believing that.
He was dismissed on the grounds that he was lazy.
He was dismissed of the grounds that he was idle.
She was fired on the grounds that she was often absent.
She was dismissed on the grounds of neglect of duty.
Tom was court-martialed on the grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
Students are forbidden to smoke on the school grounds.
There are sufficient grounds for believing he is honest.
She resigned on the grounds of ill health.
We are looking for theories with scientific grounds.
On what grounds were you fired?
There were coffee grounds left in my cup.
A gardener takes care of the grounds.
The police have no grounds to hold Tom.

Movie subtitles

I'm okay as long as I'm within the school grounds.
I'll be seeing you in the happy hunting grounds, if not before.
I understand it adjoins your grounds.
You realize. that an implication of this kind may be grounds for a criminal libel action.
I'm asking you not to remind me on public grounds!
If there's anything like you say on my grounds, we'll have it removed.
We found her out on the grounds.
ON WHAT GROUNDS?
You've seen the grounds, of course.
What shall be the grounds for such military action, minister?
I understand and sympathize with you, but I have judged it consistent with the good of His Majesty's service to order all available troops westward to meet the Indians on their own grounds.
While they murder us on our grounds. We're carrying out a military policy designed to guarantee the permanent security of the frontier.
Would you mind looking about the grounds for him?
This ain't no picnic grounds.
The pressure sensors installed in the grounds aren't picking up anything either.
And, Zeke, I'll be seeing you in the happy hunting grounds if not before.
If they feel death coming on, they head for the burial grounds.
I have captured a gypsy in the grounds whom I have thrown in the dungeon.
I don't see him just now but you'll find him on the grounds somewhere.
I want you to make an appearance, perhaps take a walk through the grounds.
He wants to include Nora and me in this shakedown. on the grounds that her father was your partner.
When I went out on the grounds looking for Asta and that knife. he knew that it would be fairly safe to take a shot at me.
I'll provide for you. You've plenty of grounds.
On what grounds? Breaking and entering.
SEARCH EVERY INCH OF THE GROUNDS.
Eric, take Fedele and search the grounds.
We've searched the grounds thoroughly, sir.
You've plenty of grounds.
Thus this house, its furnishings, the grounds upon which it stands.. Became, and still remains.. the legal property of.. Hepzibah Pyncheon.
Come, Colonel. As an officer of the law, don't you feel there are some slight grounds for suspicion?
The doctor and I are gonna search the cellar and the grounds.
I'm a sworn officer of the law 24 hours a day and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding the evidence of crime from me except on constitutional grounds.
A couple guys get out there and beat through the grounds for the gun.
We shall fight on the landing grounds.
I'll have Laszlo come there to pick up the letters and that'll give you grounds to make the arrest.
Our hunting grounds, too.

News and current affairs

In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
We feel obliged to emphasize that disputes between governments are not grounds for actions against the civilian population.
But I think that we have grounds to be optimistic about the future.
So there are grounds to believe that our improved reasoning abilities have enabled us to reduce the influence of those more impulsive elements of our nature that lead to violence.
A policy of partial, delayed integration is preferable to quotas, not only in view of the Treaty of Rome but also on economic grounds.
There are simply no rational grounds for expecting either the Conservatives or Labour to achieve the decisive victory needed to form a stable government.
Only the makers of highly specialized equipment, perhaps for exploration under Siberian conditions, might have grounds for drawing on the compensation fund.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
The key action came in June 2012, when the Supreme Court, staffed entirely with Mubarak-era holdovers, nullified the results of the parliamentary elections on specious grounds.
Perhaps this particular attack can be justified on those grounds.
This may be good on efficiency and even equity grounds.
Industrial support is usually justified on the grounds that private-sector monopolies and duopolies distort markets - though, having driven McDonnell-Douglas out of the market, Airbus and Boeing left the global market structure unchanged.
It is a divide over principles - the very principles of the EU's treaties and Charter of Fundamental Rights. In Germany, especially, any person persecuted on political grounds has a constitutional right to asylum.
The decision to recommend the renminbi's inclusion, far from having been made on sound economic grounds, can only be understood as political.
Such experiences provide grounds for optimism.
But recent developments in the Middle East suggest that there are grounds for concern in other volatile countries, namely Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran.
The strong track record of the MDGs certainly provides grounds for hope.
Crimea was annexed on the spurious grounds that it had once been part of Russia - a justification that, if applied elsewhere, could underwrite the violent redrawing of boundaries in much of Europe.
Though such moves could be challenged in the European Court of Justice on grounds of discrimination, any cases are unlikely to arise until well after the upcoming election.
Non-depression economics eschews fiscal policy, on the grounds that central banks' tools are powerful enough and their decision-making more effective and technocratic than that by legislatures.
A meeting between Abe and Xi - their first since either came to power - would offer concrete grounds for hope.
Ten days later, he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the city's Minar-e-Pakistan grounds, where, a year earlier, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan had launched what he not very appropriately termed a political tsunami.
Moreover, under the new law, subnational governments will no longer be able to limit investments on environmental grounds - decisions that were guided by strict technical standards and highly trained experts.

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