the middle ground
the centre ground BrE
the center ground AmE

I only know the middle ground where we live our lives.

We've moved in the middle ground to get something done.

There was no way he could try to hold the middle ground.

There was also a third position, taking the middle ground.

Perhaps we'd be better off finding the middle ground for everyone?

It looks like it's going to be hard for people here to find the middle ground again.

On the middle ground, the vision went out of focus.

Yet the middle ground remains more of a no man's land than it needs to be.

We say now you have to seize the middle ground.

"It's an example of having to take the middle ground the closer we get to the final days."

It will help keep us in the middle ground we have occupied for some time.

"The president is restoring the balance and the middle ground."

Whether that means he can capture the middle ground or just gets lost between remains to be seen.

But the middle ground for potential compromise has been much reduced.

Still, he was careful to strive for the middle ground.

"Russia is good at playing the middle ground," he added.

Major has swiftly moved towards the middle ground of politics.

The middle ground, the basis of democracy, is losing itself.

And in war, it's very hard to hold the middle ground."

Probably because the three main political parties are all chasing the middle ground in politics.

It is also true that the middle ground sometimes shifts as the national mood changes.

So the accord claims enough of the middle ground that it may actually hold up over the years.

But in the election proper, he will have to focus his attention on winning the middle ground.

It's those in the middle ground that require a lengthy review.

While we hesitate to stir things up again, it seems as if this is one issue where the middle ground makes the most sense.

People talk about the centre ground as if it's a bad thing.

Essentially they are the party of the centre ground, the middle way.

The centre ground is the most sensible place in politics.

The new leader would have to find his own way to the centre ground on which all elections are won.

She moved the centre ground of British politics and was a huge figure on the world stage.

It should be a force that shapes the centre ground of politics, he says.

The winning side is that which holds the centre ground of politics.

Occupation of the centre ground may not be essential for success.

Changed by his absence, he rebuilt the party on the centre ground.

Public opinion should be the centre ground and not the opinions of politicians.

Nonsense the centre ground shifts with the moving political landscape.

The centre ground is these days tinged with green.

Elections are won on the centre ground, Ed says.

When all the parties occupy the centre ground the media have to find something to distinguish the good guys from the bad ones.

The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918.

The ones you need to worry about are the ones in the mainstream, the centre ground.

Evacuating the centre ground to the enemy doesn't generally work.

A stone commemorating the event was placed in the Centre grounds.

The centre ground of British politics is once more an open arena for two-party competition.

Signalled intention to keep the party on the centre ground by speaking about the "squeezed middle".

Miliband says he does not believe this government is in the centre ground of politics.

His generation will fight for the centre ground.

The Tory leader ended with a deliberate pitch to the centre ground.

Meanwhile the centre ground has been re-occupied, in greater strength than ever, by the Alliance party.

It's because the Conservative party is back where we belong, on the centre ground of British politics.

He has the center ground to himself; the right is divided.

People talk about the centre ground as if it's a bad thing.

Essentially they are the party of the centre ground, the middle way.

His political history is that of a conservative politician moving to the center ground.

The centre ground is the most sensible place in politics.

The new leader would have to find his own way to the centre ground on which all elections are won.

If you're not prepared to occupy the center ground then forget it.

She moved the centre ground of British politics and was a huge figure on the world stage.

It should be a force that shapes the centre ground of politics, he says.

The winning side is that which holds the centre ground of politics.

Occupation of the centre ground may not be essential for success.

Changed by his absence, he rebuilt the party on the centre ground.

Then she stepped down and began walking across the Center grounds back toward the parking lot.

The two major candidates are struggling, though, not over the fringes but the center ground.

Public opinion should be the centre ground and not the opinions of politicians.

I've the Center ground vehicle in the parking lot.

Nonsense the centre ground shifts with the moving political landscape.

The centre ground is these days tinged with green.

Elections are won on the centre ground, Ed says.

When all the parties occupy the centre ground the media have to find something to distinguish the good guys from the bad ones.

"The center ground is where you find the concern, the hopes and the dreams of most people and families in this country."

The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918.

The ones you need to worry about are the ones in the mainstream, the centre ground.

Evacuating the centre ground to the enemy doesn't generally work.

A stone commemorating the event was placed in the Centre grounds.