Sentence examples for authorities the upper hand from inspiring English sources

That leaves them vulnerable to arbitrary predation by law-enforcement bodies.This sense of opacity and impenetrability gives the authorities the upper hand.

Finally the authorities appeared to get the upper hand, bringing him back Monday on a private plane staffed with doctors, said a spokesman for India's Central Bureau of Investigation.

The toll is tiny in absolute terms for a country of around 160 million people, and authorities insist they have the upper hand in the battle against what they describe as a relatively small, unprofessional band of fanatics, pointing to dozens of arrests.

Whether you live with a garden that has roared into maturity or with only a patch of bare ground newly carved out of the sod, what you need for the slack season is a pile of books in which authority and suggestiveness wrestle for the upper hand.

Scotland, with Darren Fletcher exerting his authority in midfield, gradually gained the upper hand, with Andrew Robertson and Martin both going close.

Macron's administration views the potential escalation of civil unrest as a serious challenge to its authority and is determined to regain the upper hand after it was accused of being unprepared for last week's riots.

Taken together, the arrests are a remarkable reversal from the 1990's, when the gangs clearly had the upper hand over the authorities.

Having regained the upper hand, civil and military authorities rounded up the most conspicuous rioters, including Fergusson, Meredith and Johnson.

Third, a flawed judicial system that gives the upper hand to those in authority over and above ordinary people".

By the early 1990s such critics had gained the upper hand in swaying China's political authorities.

It was an unusual affront to Mr. Medvedev's authority, and the Kremlin has worked quickly to try to regain the upper hand.