| 单词 | high ground |
| 释义 | BETA Examples ofhigh groundDictionary> Examples ofhigh ground high groundisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Add a definition By seizing the moralhighgroundolder people not only hope to set an example. From theCambridge English Corpus The railroad is situated onhighgroundfor quite a stretch. From theCambridge English Corpus There are areas ofhighgroundwithout hotspots. From theCambridge English Corpus As the water rose, animals presumably soughthighgroundand thereby became concentrated on hilltops that remained emergent as islands. From theCambridge English Corpus Much of thehighgroundwas turned over to sheep grazing. From theCambridge English Corpus Medical ethicists belong in the vanguard of the struggle to reclaim the moralhighgroundfor a profession in danger of losing its moorings. From theCambridge English Corpus This was evidently a concession tohighgroundproperty owners who had previously paid no rate. From theCambridge English Corpus What he does do is to provide some pathways between thehighgroundof technical certitude and the swamp of the individual case. From theCambridge English Corpus Future generations, moreover, could use the myth to claim the moral and intellectualhighgroundover presumably naive forebears. From theCambridge English Corpus This gave them the moralhighgroundand the impression that their strike had yielded results. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, as the subject of poverty raises passions, writers all too often end up assuming the moralhighground. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, in occupying the moralhighgroundin this way we do not thereby avoid the difficult decisions that need to be made. From theCambridge English Corpus The principal danger is that the structuralisthighgroundspatializes everything the semiotician surveys into so much bricolage. From theCambridge English Corpus At the beginning of the nineteenth century, entire metropolitan areas remained exempt from rating because they were onhighground. From theCambridge English Corpus The rhetoric of a ' war on ageing ' positions the practitioners of anti-ageing medicine on moralhighground, as valiant warriors against a terrible fate. From theCambridge English Corpus In this respect, they viewed themselves during marriage as ' unselfish ' and as such held the moralhighgroundover men. From theCambridge English Corpus On thehighground, snow falls buried fences for months at a time during winter. From theCambridge English Corpus And as inducements in a voluntary transaction, incentives certainly have the moralhighgroundover coercion as an alternative. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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