Sentence examples for on the high ground from inspiring English sources

One of the women explains that a rain, even a slight one, gives the factories on the high ground an excuse to jettison their wastewater.

By the way, one of my favorite lines in "Stranded... .. is, "If you're standing on the high ground, there's no where to go but down".

When people first built houses on Staten Island, they usually put them on the high ground.

"It's better to get back on the high ground where we belong".

Lowland farmers earn three times more from their mulberry trees than those already living on the high ground.

There were no leaves on the trees, but the rebels were on the high ground and were well hidden.

Scotland, or a large part of it, is covered with white: snow on the high ground, rime on the low.

On the high ground overlooking northern Israel, the pupils met Avigdor Kahalani, a retired general who commanded a decisive battle there in 1973.

Military installations on the high ground above the Syrian capital were the target of air strikes in May, thought to have been carried out by Israel.

Kennedy's amendment was defended in the press by committee chairman Senator Ernest Hollings on the high ground: "The airwaves belong to the public.

Mr. Ryan is on the high ground when he talks about the need to rein in chronic deficits and the growth in entitlement spending.