Sentence examples for decisive upper hand from inspiring English sources

That gave South Korean exporters the decisive upper hand as they crushed Japanese rivals in markets everywhere.

When combined with the relaxation of labour laws after 1997, this has given employers a decisive upper hand over their workers.

"We knew that certain sales of arms were going to these people, that information was being leaked -- all our operations, all our movements, were being leaked". The overwhelming suspicion that this engendered, together with the growing panic among the officers about the deterioration in the government position, gave the hardest-line officers a decisive upper hand.

At times, Brown's multiple moves made him look like he held a decisive upper hand in the coaching matchup.

Khartoum's Operation Decisive Summer has given the army an upper hand in the Darfur conflict, the review added.

Yet such failures were neither final nor decisive and Hanoi seemed to increasingly hold the upper hand.

England's pack took a long time to get to grips with the grizzled Pumas eight, and it was only in the last quarter of the game that Johnson's men finally got the upper hand, with replacement scrum-half Ben Youngs darting over for the decisive try.

The Gepids initially gained the upper hand, but in 567, thanks to his alliance with the Avars, Alboin inflicted a decisive defeat on his enemies, whose lands the Avars subsequently occupied.

Calzaghe, though, was beginning to gain the upper hand and with his own cut being well managed by his corner he began to land decisive blows on Jones.

Nature has the upper hand.

"They have the upper hand.