So perhaps it's not surprising that the ground is fertile for some kind of backlash against Barcelona.
Novelist He Weiyan, 21, believes that the ground people stand on in Shanghai is made of plastic.
But planning officers have asked for further work to ensure that the ground is not hit by flooding again.
Blake Farmer of member station WPLN in Nashville says that the ground is so dry, even the weeds won't grow.
We should not be looking at the centenary of the last M5 and assuming that the ground is going to shake.
Now the central deception - that the Ground Zero mosque was never really a mosque at all - has been fully revealed.
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Philip Aguer, suggested that the ground incursions and aerial bombardment may indicate that Bashir plans to make good on his threat to invade.
It is there that the ground is reported to have risen up from under his feet to enable him to be heard by the assembled crowd.
Believing that the ground below the twin towers is as sacred as the space above, some even say that the new transport hub must be moved northwards.
Mr Blair's comments in Brazil suggest that the ground is also being prepared for a quite different verdict: that the euro is not yet ready for Britain.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.
The basic effect is that given that the ground at night is generally cooler than the atmosphere, thus the air near the ground is cooler than the air higher up.
Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram had assured workers there, and in plants in Scotland and England, that the ground-breaking scheme to refurbish and maintain RAF planes had landed government approval.
"With no real change in satisfaction with the NHS in 2012, this suggests the fall in 2011 was not a blip and that the ground lost may take some time to recover, " he said.
The fear is that the ground for the great over-arching deal planned for agreement in 2015 will be insufficiently prepared as nations coast through the next few years with apparently plenty of time ahead.
"There's a strong expectation that the economic impacts will increase going forward particularly because one might expect in the future that the ground could expand and as they do better we would hope there would be success in more competitions, " he said.
For a midcareer leader, this may be a time to move back to the creative ferment phase, accepting that the ground is shifting within her industry, that there are no guarantees that her job will still exist in the same form within just a few more years, but that untold new possibilities may exist.
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While there is no indication that the Ground Zero mosque will witness the type of firebrand sermons practiced by KSM and his followers, there are legitimate questions as to why its developers at the Cordoba Institute and their mysterious financial backers have selected a site just two blocks from where the World Trade Center was destroyed.
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Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.
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In discussion several times this morning with Secretary Tom Ridge, the effort is heavily under way to coordinate an understanding of exactly where the orbiter path had taken it from West Texas toward the Kennedy Space Center here in Florida, and to make sure that the material on the ground is secured so that the investigation can begin promptly.
Most of the casualties were due to the air strikes that preceded the ground incursion.
When we stopped at Stevens Pass to stretch our legs, I tried to devilishly form a sad-looking snowball from the light snow that covered the ground.
Right now a kid with an MBA, a PhD and venture capital billions is plotting the disruptive technology that shifts the ground for Netflix.
All other things equal, the mining of that tonne might raise the value of the coal that remains in the ground, leaving the value of coal assets unchanged.
Its line is that Muslims should eschew electoral democracy altogether, on the ground that the only regime worth supporting is a global caliphate.
And the good news, he says, is that on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military are working closely together on leads so they can go after high-value targets (that's the lingo for the baddest of the bad guys).
Obama seems to have been trying to make the accurate observation that since the '30s the court has not struck down a federal law that applies to economic activity on the ground that it exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause authority.
And I want you to know that the grassroots work that you all are doing on the ground to get people focused and fired up, that work is at the core of everything we do in this campaign.
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