Contrary to Professor Edward Felten's prerogative that "we" should make choices about the appropriateness of government surveillance programs, I believe that spreading sunshine in the black world of intelligence collection would do nothing more than give our adversaries the upper hand in future terrorist operational planning.
"The way to explain the decline in violence," he writes, "is to identify the changes in our cultural and material milieu that have given our peaceable motives the upper hand".
But I must admit that my friend's son Donovan had the upper hand during our recent lunch at the Argyle Restaurant in Kearny.
"We must lead our cadres to gain the upper hand in the struggle between subversion and counter-subversion, containment and counter-containment, separatism and counter-separatism".
"I thought I would be starting off as the senior partner with the perceived upper hand in our relationship because I was the one who had played a lot of Test cricket," Hussain has recalled.
While it was disappointing not to find recipes for Couch Grass Chowder or Convolvulus Crepes (both weeds having the upper hand at our allotment), Bistort Bolognese or Ribwort Plantain Omelette may well find their way on to our plates this spring.
In 2006 Tibet's party chief, Zhang Qingli, said the comfortable-housing programme and job creation in the countryside were an essential foundation for keeping "the upper hand in our struggle with the Dalai clique".Figures alone might suggest that Mr Zhang (a hardline Han Chinese) is making headway.
Risk currently has the upper hand and our long-standing war against the gods and probabilities may never be won.
And if that happen which I expect, you will never have the foreigners upon you at the Isthmus; they will advance no further than Attica, but depart in disorderly fashion; and we shall gain by the saving of Megara and Aegina and Salamis, where it is told us by an oracle that we shall have the upper hand of our enemies.
Right now the disease has the upper hand, and our blind spots are still the only thing in the way of changing that.
The reigns of law, morality, and wisdom must gain the upper hand in our personal and collective lives and the principles that bring success in each realm reflect each other.
