Sentence examples for it has the upper hand from inspiring English sources

"You wanna buy Sirius XM, you'll have to put a whole lot more money on the table, jerk, because we're interested, too!" Of course, since EchoStar already has a good chunk of Sirius XM debt on its books, it has the upper hand in any sort of open bidding/negotiating with Sirius XM.

Then, as now, the professional class of lawyers, teachers and journalists seems to feel as if it has the upper hand in its status war against the business class of executives and financiers.

But for now, it has the upper hand.

And right now, the I.R.S. believes it has the upper hand.

Mr. Obama's tough attack on Monday signaled the White House's confidence that it has the upper hand, legislatively and politically.

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For the quarter hour the BBC1 show overlapped with Beat the Star, from 6.45pm, it had the upper hand with 4.4 million viewers against 3.3 million.

Late this evening, Ethiopia said that it had the upper hand in fighting on the westernmost front and that its soldiers had broken through three lines of Eritrean trenches and had taken what it called strategic points.

The government thought it had the upper hand when it managed to obtain support for a modified law by reformist unions, and hoped that the protests would slowly die down.

If the slaughter of 20 children didn't prompt the US Congress into even small steps toward gun control, such as closing the loophole in background check laws, then the NRA could feel pretty confident that it had the upper hand.

Russia claimed that it had the upper hand in fierce street fighting in Grozny, even after rebels demonstrated their freedom of movement by staging surprise attacks from the rear.