Sentences with phrase «firm ground»

But, be that as it may, I am on firm ground with these words.

Yesterday's vote breaks firm ground for a basic income debate in years to come.

She stands on firm ground when in defending the professional standards of paid editors she argues that «when the job is done properly, enormous value is added».

These are the key drivers of everything we do and helps establish firm ground rules from the start.

Finding a sugar daddy is easy, but keeping the right one can be a real challenge unless you set firm ground rules from the start.

When it comes to the physiology of kissing we are on slightly firmer ground.

At the least, you'll be on firm ground next time you need to convince a skeptical landlord that you can be a worthy pet - owning tenant.

Like many folks, he has yet to get back on firm ground since the real estate bubble popped in 2006.

A lot of men usually feel very comfortable being on firm ground when they start relations on the dating website.

«Setting firm ground is about creating healthy routines of waking, sleeping, and stimulating play, as well as dealing effectively with crying,» she writes.

Insurance and debt reduction have rightly become vital organs of the economy since its near collapse in 2008, and it seems now the Internet has finally established firm grounding in its offerings to regular Americans in these areas.

I think the future of travel writing is on much firmer ground if it's justified by the simple fact that people and places are never really the same and therefore always worth writing about, which I think is absolutely true.

He is one of the founders and editors of the highly collaborative On Firmer Ground blog, which covers the challenges facing contemporary law firm librarians.

Mediator Zinner helps you establish firm ground rules and a confidential environment so that emotionally charged issues can be talked about safely.

Most owners have a fairly firm grounding on how a dog acts when he is happy, confident, friendly, deferential, fearful, or aggressive.

So senior U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson was on very firm ground when he stated this week in Montreal that, «I reject the premise that the Kyoto - like agreement is necessary to address the issue.»

The prime minister began the interview with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on firm ground as she spoke about the government's review of student finance and stressed her desire to remove the stigma around non-university education.

Research in metabolic equivalents uses actual measurements of the calories expended by people walking uphill at a brisk 3.5 miles per hour with those walking on flat, firm ground at the same speed.

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Reinhold Niebuhr's attempt to place the democratic experiment on more firm ground.

As a teenager Thorpe had little firm ground in his life until he met Freed through her son, Chip, in 1979.

It lists a potential disadvantage of Obamacare though, so you'd be on firmer ground just saying that it could raise healthcare costs in the short term (or providing reputable sources that substantiate the claims you're currently making)

12:08 - On firmer ground Hague suggests the government might be responsible for recession.

The Russos are on much firmer ground pitting their good guys against each other — for comedy or friction — than pushing any of them up against Thanos.

Politically, the secretary is on firm ground citing the precedent of his predecessors» waivers, and his critics» temporal concerns about executive power and federalism seem to owe more to which party controls the Oval Office than any underlying theory of government.

«I still think they struggle for resources, but they are on a lot firmer ground than they ever have been,» said Amy Mackie, who runs Parse NOLA, a nonprofit curatorial residency here.

Titled «The Book of Telling A Prayer for Our Century,» Thomas's prose from 1995 reads in part: «I find that I am unsure of my step, once firm ground lies wasted, it gives way and I am falling.

Evaluations such as presented or referenced above show that use of ERA - Interim to provide prompt monthly summaries of several hydrological variables in terms of anomaly maps and time series is on quite firm ground for Europe, including sub-divisions between west and east, and north and south.

You have firm ground underneath your feet that you can stand on and a community of other people who share the same values, so you can support one another, help one another; those are the kinds of things that keep my fire burning.

Act 88 has put cyber charter schools on firm ground in Pennsylvania and has only enhanced its position as a leader in the cyber charter movement.

You are on firmer ground with constituencies and coalitions.

Parts are swampy, whereas others offer firm ground and solid footing.

However, if Split marks a return to firmer ground for writer - director Shyamalan and his supernatural / psychological thrillers, the credit goes to McAvoy.

To my mind, Gioia is on much firmer ground when he criticizes the state of the public conversation in serious journals, newspapers, and other venues.

Without urgent and radical reform the banking system will never change and those businesses needed to help pull the recovery onto firmer ground will be left to struggle.»