41.   Critics of the verdict said the state was on shaky legal ground by punishing women for the outcome of their pregnancies.

42.   Despite the efforts of the last several years, the institution of marriage is losing ground by some measures.

43.   First Congress kills our own bird nest on the ground by pulling the plug on the multibillion dollar superconducting super collider.

44.   For example, research is still under way to determine whether some solvents extracted from the ground by trees end up evaporating through pores in leaves.

45.   For instance, Miller broke ground by giving employees stock options.

46.   Foraging deeper is often a survival strategy for fishermen forced out of traditional grounds by government regulators and pressed by creditors to make payments on expensive boats.

47.   He and the other inspectors have pulled it out of the ground by the roots, burned it, chopped it.

48.   He inherits an economy that was run into the ground by con men and crooks in the past decade.

49.   He slumped against the podium and was helped to the ground by Cronin and trustees, witnesses said.

50.   He said he had heard a sibilant sound and had thrown himself to the ground by instinct.