sure ground

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For much of this full-day session Ms Sturgeon was on sure ground, defending her pandemic approach.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024

But then there’s the other half of the story, and here the show is on less sure ground.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

The author is on less sure ground when he discusses Lincoln’s reaction to the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor killed while defending his printing press from a mob in 1837.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2017

Apple is on less sure ground when it argues, as Olson did, that the government can't make it "re-create code" or "change the iPhone."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2016

It is not by any gratuitous assumption that we maintain this, but on the sure ground of strong scriptural testimony.

From The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various