Sentence examples for higher ground over from inspiring English sources

The Met Office was forecasting rain and wind, with the possibility of snow showers on higher ground over the weekend.

The ECB thought they had the moral high ground over Kevin Pietersen.

Some Germans seem to relish the unusual opportunity to take the moral high ground over Nazism.

Europe's present-day assumption of the moral high ground over a conflict it helped to shape is breathtakingly audacious.

Denis Mollison Musselburgh, East Lothian Chris Huhne tries to claim the green high ground over the Conservatives (Blue won't be green, April 27).

But Israeli leaders appear increasingly nervous about the possibility of fighters linked to al-Qaida occupying the Golan's high ground over northern Israel.

Tomlinson then hit out at the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, accusing her of having "quit the moral high ground" over the issue.

It provided rich-country governments and then-WTO Director General Mike Moore with an opportunity to gain the moral high ground over anti-globalization protesters.

Southern Scotland and parts of north-east England, particularly the high ground over the Pennines, received a dusting of snow overnight, and Billy Payne, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said more was likely in the coming days.

Japan's critics question whether research requires so many whales to be killed.Japanese officials also accuse Australia of hypocrisy: taking the high ground over whales while it kills thousands of kangaroos in controlled culls.

But, as the EU howls in dismay at revelations that the US has been targeting European citizens, Prism reveals how western democracies no longer have the moral high ground over intrusive web-watchers such as Russia, China, Iran, or Azerbaijan, targets of Anglo-American-European condemnation of poor human rights records on the ground and online.