Sentence examples for relative upper hand from inspiring English sources
Said (1978: 7) refers to the dominance of European identity over minority identities as a "flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand".
To understand the relative strength of Obama's upper hand, let's compare his electoral performance in 2008 with that of his two most recent Democratic predecessors.
But because Gillian is a blood relative, she apparently holds the upper hand in court.
She said the pirates were using the relatives' anguish to gain the upper hand.
For a movement that's been split over the last few years between hawks and (relative) isolationists, the hawks certainly had the rhetorical upper hand on Thursday.
That raises questions about relative economic power, and about who holds the upper hand as the two rivals embark on a new stage of interdependence.
Nature has the upper hand.
Investors have the upper hand.
"They have the upper hand.
Russia has long had the upper hand.
