The previous year, she broke ground on an ambitious White House garden.
She said ground-based experiments and space missions planned in the next few years would give more detailed information on distant planets like those announced by the Kepler team.
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Lumber punched and bit seven-month pregnant Miss Prentice until she jumped from a ground floor window after she told him to stop smoking in their flat.
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Eyewitnesses said she fell to the ground - some say she was pushed - after a disagreement with security officials, who wanted her to move her stall from in front of a supermarket.
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"She could see the smoke and knew the brigade were there so she got as low on the ground as as she could, " he said.
Ms. Sharif and her brother were arrested and detained for six hours, during which time she stood her ground.
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After the interview, polls published in The Australian newspaper showed that she had lost ground to opposition leader Tony Abbott.
She was dragged into Forest Recreation Ground and raped when she walked to meet her mother who had come to collect her.
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When she hit the ground, Ms Davies heard a shout but "I didn't look back and just ran", barely aware of her injuries, she said.
In her post-race meeting with Stewart, co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, Patrick was told she made the right move and probably would have lost even more ground if she had tried something.
In 1984 she knew that Edward Heath had, in the 1970s, twice taken on the miners and lost, leaving his government discredited, so she prepared the ground carefully for her own clash.
She founded Common Ground in 1990, and presided over its growth into one of the largest developers of permanent supportive housing in the country for more than 20 years until leaving to launch Community Solutions in 2011 with a new national strategy.
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In that case, she said the guards beat her up with closed fists and handcuffs, did belly-flops on her body as she lay on the ground, repeatedly squeezed her nipples and reached toward her groin, and that she thought she was going to die.
Four months earlier, she had paved new ground as the first Asian player to reach a major final: the Australian Open, where she lost in three sets to Belgium's Kim Clijsters.
On the other hand, she is breaking new ground during a time of great activity.
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She said that that ground assault was the "collective punishment" of 1.5m people by the Israeli government.
He said he stabbed her once while she was standing and then once again as she lay on the ground.
When Ms. Sullivan joined me us in early Q4 she really hit the ground running, requiring little in the way of a honeymoon period.
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She fell to the ground where he swung his foot back like a footballer and kicked her in the top half of her body, Ms Elliott said.
The opposition has initiated a series of lawsuits seeking to have Mrs Arroyo disqualified on the ground that she is using government resources for her campaign, an accusation she denies.
And as an African-American woman, she would be a ground-breaking choice to lead an agency that has only been led by white men over the course of its 80-year history.
Aparna Choudharie, a scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, sat cross-legged in her sari on the ground as she cheered on one of the speakers who took the stage.
She was on the ground floor, her bed so close to the window that I could watch her chest rise and fall the way I watched the grass on their lawn stirring in the wind.
She can hit the ground running.
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George Lucas may be used to fans falling at his feet but as she tumbled to the ground our nameless colleague quickly regained both balance and composure and raced off before he was able to pass judgment on her unintentional audition for CNN's stunt-woman of the year.
On this occasion, she was standing on the wedding ground amid thousands of awed guests, watching the grandest entrance she had ever been asked to pull off.
And she encouraged students from all backgrounds to respectfully exchange ideas and seek common ground -- because she believes, as I do, that exposure to a broad array of perspectives is the foundation not just for a sound legal education, but of a successful life in the law.
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