Only then would they be able to make their way to safe ground.

In the beginning, at least, everyone is on safe ground.

So far it seems to me that we are on safe ground.

Instead, she quickly moved from the personal to the safer ground of the political.

When she turned back to him, he made sure to keep the conversation on safe ground.

Of course, everybody in the village was saying exactly the same thing so he probably considered himself to be on safe ground.

And why couldn't her heart move on, to far safer ground?

Each man tried to stake out political safe ground today on the issue.

He was on safe enough ground, and sure of it now.

I thought not: we were on safe ground for this night.