Connecticut suffered greatly in 2011 from the effects of Tropical Storm Irene and the October snowstorm which left over two feet on the ground and downed thousands of trees that Irene kindly spared.
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The relatively small number of American boots on the ground in Afghanistan helped to create a vacuum of security in the country, which the Taliban would deftly exploit, so that by 2007, they once again posed a significant military threat in Afghanistan.
Should strategic Israeli positions on the high ground above the Jordan Valley, many of which are secured by settlements and military outposts, be surrendered, the Arabs' calculus surely would change.
The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.
And we moved this party back to the ground on which our success has always been built, the centre ground of British politics.
This theory is used to support the discovery of three marks on the ground in the forest which some claim tally with the tripod feet on the capsule.
They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
To calculate this, the team took data from patches of forest studied on the ground, in which every tree's diameter has been recorded, and combined them with images from MODIS and with data from an instrument called GLAS, which bounced laser beams off the Earth's surface between 2003 and 2009.
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As it happens, there is another ground on which the dismissal of Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne could be justified.
And we have an overall team, the number of which I gave you, on the ground there that is making its own assessments and working very closely with Japanese officials to make those assessments.
But with the monarch whom the Orange Order reveres meeting Martin McGuinness and speculation about a fresh IRA apology, perhaps at the end of July, could the ground on which the Order stands be shifting?
But the crush was immense in the passageway and on the stairway which took fans out of the ground beyond the top of the terracing.
Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, today announced the opening date of the transformed Museum and presented an update on the progress of construction of Leeser Architecture's innovative design, which thoroughly reimagines the ground floor of the existing building and provides a remarkable three-story addition.
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One tourist, jokingly, takes a step over a white line painted on the ground, which marks the end of Chinese territory.
The group, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, also reported fierce clashes between rebels and army troops to the east of the capital.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said regime jets also hit the northern city of Raqqa, killing eight people there on Thursday.
There is a new deal brewing between Argentina and Iran in order to improve relations between the two counties, which have been on shaky ground ever since the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and the Jewish community headquarters (AMIA) in 1994.
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And we've been coordinating with the United Nations, which now has a number of personnel on the ground as well, to make sure that people are getting the help they need and we are in a position to respond to any additional emergencies that may arise out of the situation there.
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The last Chatichai administration ended in a coup, which the generals sought to justify on the ground of excessive corruption.
In Delaware, she was active with a nonprofit organization called Delaware Boots on the Ground, which helps families during times of military deployment by organizing community events to raise awareness and support.
The attempt to restart condominium sales at City Center comes about six years after the developers broke ground on the 67-acre project, which, even in a city of extravagance, stood out as grandiose.
The time President Obama has spent discussing and debating the report from Nato commander General Stanley McChrystal has been perceived by many as a sign of indecision, which is damaging the campaign on the ground with every passing week as it sends out a message of a lack of resolve.
All other things being equal, that appears likely to be one of the points on which President Obama will be seeking common ground with Republicans in the president's State of the Union address.
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The top two are heading for a final showdown on Dortmund's home ground at Signal Iduna Park on April 11 which could well decide the destination of the German title.
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It is thought to have got in through a door on the ground floor, which was left open because of the hot weather.
Ambulance workers raced to the scene to find the gruesome sight of pieces of flesh on the ground, interspersed with sharp pieces of metal, nuts, bolts and ball bearings which had been packed around the bombs.
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The estate had claimed the council had not carried out a full study of the effect on the stone curlew, which nests on the ground in the area.
The game was birthed in the country in 1930 with the formation of the Lagos Polo Club, which, set on an old British Army Parade ground, served as an entertainment hotspot for colonial officials who had previously played the sport in England.
What we're seeing on the ground near Kalak today, which is a couple of hours away by car from my location, is a further degradation of Iraq's front line defenses around one of two key northern cities, Mosul.
PRODES, relies mainly on Landsat, an American satellite which provides colour images of great detail (each pixel represents 30 metres on the ground).
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