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Example sentences for: grounds

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Brill replied that several Democrats had asked the question, but Starr had refused to answer on the grounds that a federal judge had ordered the investigation of these leaks to be kept confidential.
Connecting through Plants Since the Indianapolis Zoo opened in 1988, its botanical collection has been integrated throughout the grounds of our 64-acre complex.
On the grounds that the sultans were too soft, he cut through Delhi in 1398, slaughtering thousands of Hindus and carrying off thousands more as slaves.
The story doesn't reveal until its eleventh paragraph that the new round of negotiations was first reported by this week's issue of Newsweek . Some journalists defend this suppression practice on the grounds that such sourcing issues are only of interest to other journalists, and not the general reader.
Lala Bonilla (Rosario Dawson), the amusingly named Delilah dispatched to seduce the young star, gets a monologue near the end in which she justifies her actions on socioeconomic grounds.