gain the upper hand's Usage Examples:

state of excitement and the Whigs and Tories continually trying to gain the upper hand.

Initially unsuccessful in the conflict, Phraates II managed to gain the upper hand and defeated Antiochus VII's forces, with the Seleucid himself dying.

" It is on the third day that Ferdiad starts to gain the upper hand.

Rival Syndicates are using the revolt as the ideal opportunity to gain the upper hand in the ongoing struggle for supremacy.

The Swedes attacked aggressively, but failed to gain the upper hand, primarily because the approaching Dutch had the weather gage.

their besieged colleagues, and firepower and artillery helped them gain the upper hand.

Stallos are clumsy and stupid, and thus humans often gain the upper hand over them.

But Spain couldn't gain the upper hand and on September 6, 1736, the Portuguese even lay siege to Montevideo.

made use of their mobility and intimate knowledge of the terrain to gain the upper hand.

Soft attacks gain the upper hand for a practitioner and sets up the opponent for a harder, more dominant.

which Bonifaci blamed the Genoese for allowing the Venetians to gain the upper hand and insult them, Zorzi composed the sirventes Molt me sui fort d'un.

defeat of Napoleon in 1814, during which royalist armies were able to gain the upper hand in the Spanish American wars of independence.

battles, taking and retaking ground in which neither side was able to gain the upper hand.

exposure of the plots allowed John Pym and other opposition leaders to gain the upper hand by imprisoning or forcing into exile many of the king's supporters.

Uniate liturgy and organisation after this Church had managed to gain the upper hand among the Eastern Christians of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

series of attacks and counterattacks, but neither side was able to gain the upper hand.

At different times in history one of the two twin towns would gain the upper hand over the other.

Villanova started to gain the upper hand in the second half, taking their largest lead of the game, 67–57.

By 1528 Ferdinand managed to gain the upper hand over Zapolya in Hungary, however, Zapolya in turn swore an oath to.

Synonyms:

high;

Antonyms:

low; black;