1 The President must seek to regain the high ground in the political debate.

2 The Republicans took the moral high ground with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority.

3 Tomorrow, there's a remote possibility of snow on high ground.

4 The government is claiming the high ground in the education debate.

5 Our troops took up defensive positions on high ground overlooking the river.

6 Villagers herded the livestock to high ground to keep them safe during the floods.

7 The village stands on high ground and is not prone to flooding.

8 Some corporations have seized the moral high ground.

9 It depends who has the high ground.

10 They were taking the high ground.

11 On the high ground, the soldiers were shrouded in a heavy mist, suiting their purpose perfectly.

12 Also, any obstruction such as high ground between you and the transmitter can cause loss of reception.

13 It occupied the moral high ground and refused to budge.

14 But such a brash grasp for the moral high ground called for an answer.

15 The hotel is on high ground and never was in danger of flooding.

16 Stick to the moral high ground by blaming the current system for not saving as many lives as it might.

17 The candidates held the moral high ground because they stood up and offered to serve.

18 On approaching the high ground before the Alps themselves we all encountered thick cloud, despite the season, and icing.

19 Neither side in this conflict can claim the moral high ground .

20 He led her from the scene of horror to a patch of rocky high ground that seemed safe.

21 The flak was heavy, relentless as hounds chasing a cornered stag up and down high ground.

22 The way things were going the enemy seemed very determined to push the Brigade off this high ground.

23 Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate, their crimes political.

24 Ivan and Gordy and the rest of the boys started building on high ground.

25 One appeared to be an enemy headquarters, the other an area of high ground.

26 Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.

27 They had time to save furniture and valuables before fleeing to high ground early Saturday morning.

28 Porvoo Cathedral was built c. 1415 and stands on high ground on the outskirts of the town.

29 There may also be an opportunity to seize the high ground, Panetta said.

30 It was still raining at the weekend as the authorities struggled to rescue villagers from trees or vanishing high ground.

1 The President must seek to regain the high ground in the political debate.

31 The new alliance will attempt to win the moral high ground from anti-abortion and antivivisection groups, he says.

32 The company, though, is trying to seize the high ground and demonstrate that agricultural biotechnology can be used for good.

33 At the end it climbed steeply on to the high ground on which the old Roman fort had been built.

34 Houston also seized the mental high ground for a possible playoff matchup, which could occur as early as the first round.

35 Then she took high ground.

36 Main mark is high ground liberated productivity, development productivity.

37 How do we recapture the intellectual high ground?

38 The defenders were overlooked from the surrounding high ground.

39 Artillery was positioned on high ground to the rear.

40 Build your future on high ground.

41 Already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side.

42 Move to the nearest high ground in a direction away from the path.

43 So which region will now occupy the moral high ground?

44 Sorry, it takes a few minutes to reach the high ground.

45 Residents stand on electric wires to stay on high ground while others wade in neck-deep flood waters caused by Typhoon Ketsana in Cainta Rizal, east of Manila September 27, 2009.

46 The buoyance of underground structure in a high ground water level area is a problem needing solution, so the anti-pullout mechanism of underground structure has become an important research topic.

47 Even worse: They think they hold the moral high ground.

48 Lee's army still held strong defensive positions along high ground south of Fredericksburg. This was almost halfway between the capitals of the opposing sides: Washington and Richmond.

49 And they are losing the moral high ground by making their own deadly attacks in Darfur.

50 The fish's common name originates from its hawklike habit of perching on the high ground of reefs, where it surveys its surroundings for predator or prey.

51 During the Samoan tsunami in September 2009, people who could easily have climbed to high ground in the hills behind them chose, instead, to evacuate by car.

52 The fish's common name originates from its hawklike habit of perching on the high ground of reefs, where it surveys ts surroundings for predator or prey.

53 This citadel is built on high ground for protecting the city.

54 Pro - Israeli forces command the intellectual high ground as well as the corridors of power.

55 Some deserts are in "rain shadow" areas where the winds have lost what moisture they had crossing high ground.

56 In the high ground on both sides of the wall construction of the beacon towers, ancient in an emergency signal, the beacon towers in the burning smoke during the day, give the fire at night.

57 Remember the moral high ground that western leaders took during the Asian financial crisis?

58 Now we stand on the moral high ground. We can defend ethically and morally everything we stand for.

59 Now labor wants its legitimate due from economic growth and workers have every right and the moral high ground to demand it.