Sentence examples for historic advantage from inspiring English sources

Military officials said the troops were also reminded that a wily foe with little to lose retains the historic advantage of the attacker.

Democrats had initially hoped to campaign as champions of Medicare drug benefits this fall, but they may have lost some of their historic advantage on the issue.

The question now is whether this historic advantage will suffice at a time when knowledge of math, science and technology is becoming increasingly critical.

Mr. Ferrer's advisers argue that he has one historic advantage that could allow him to win the primary outright: the fact that if elected, he will be New York's first Puerto Rican mayor.

Republicans said that by taking the initiative on prescription drugs, they could neutralize the Democrats' historic advantage on health care issues and help the president in 2004 in Florida, Pennsylvania and other states with many elderly voters.

"I think it is essentially a fact that the historic advantage that we have had as a party on this issue has significantly eroded," said Carter Eskew, a Democratic strategist.

Its historic advantages both as a home base or a vacation destination are ample.

Hewlett has been able to cut its costs in the last year, starting to diminish one of Dell's historic advantages.

After the mid-19th century, however, more and better roads and, above all, railroads began to offset the historic advantages of water transportation to some degree.

Since the invention of the American mutual fund in Boston in 1924, one of its historic advantages has been instant liquidity for small investors who may need their savings for a rainy day.

As the most selective universities enter the already crowded online education market, success is by no means guaranteed; it remains to be seen if their historic advantages will continue to differentiate them from more agile competitors, and if they will be able to retain the prestige associated with their offline teaching.