1.   Finally, in a free democratic society, voluntary associations provide a training ground for participation in wider politics.

2.   It had not been spent on the football pitch, however, nor the training ground.

3.   It seems somewhat ironic that shorts have become the training ground for features.

4.   The agreements were a response to the Gulf crisis and the consequent use of Djibouti as a training ground for French helicopter crews.

5.   He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists.

6.   The training grounds and living quarters of the gladiators are extensive at Pompeii and adjoin the large theatre.

7.   What is more, they are increasingly seen as the training ground for management professionals who want to develop state of the art business, organisational and leadership skills.

8.   Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious -- course to be taken.

9.   It would be nice to think of them working together on the training ground.