Sentence examples for has maintained the upper from inspiring English sources

Thus, while Rouhani has maintained the upper hand on the nuclear issue, hardliners have been able to keep the domestic status quo more or less intact.

In contrast, in the Senate it appears that Republicans have maintained the upper hand, even in the closing days, largely because of the significant advantage they continue to wield in spending by third-party groups.

We have maintained the dividend.

He clearly had maintained the right contacts.

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The United States fired one of the first shots in the computer war and has long maintained the upper hand.

The company has maintained a measured tone.

Presumably it's this that Cameron is responding to; as a personification of the unshakable grip the public school/Oxbridge contingent have maintained on these upper echelons, he surely can't be daft enough to claim to empathise with all the machine-gunning.

Syrian officials have maintained that the government has the upper hand, suggesting that they believed the crackdown could eventually bring quiet.

Still, nativists had not yet gained traction and centrists maintained the upper hand.

The uprising has represented the most serious challenge to the four decades of rule by the Assad family, though Syrian officials have maintained that they have the upper hand.