Sentence examples similar to winning grounds from inspiring English sources

Also, a rival idiom had been winning ground since the end of the 18th century: irony.

But as the course of this war has shown, winning ground is one thing, holding it is another.

Groups supporting the rights of victims have also been winning ground: a religious court for another Jewish community ruled last year that in cases of child abuse, "one is forbidden to remain silent" and must report the charge to civil authorities.

Mr. Chávez's announcement came at a crucial time for his government, with challengers winning ground last week in areas like Petare, a sprawling patchwork of slums here in Caracas.

Competing with Google is hard enough for the big guys, but Zoho is winning ground as an independent startup.

Then social conservatives won ground with a shrewd strategic decision to focus the abortion debate where they had the edge.

As the party was isolated, the negotiators concentrated on trying to win ground where they could find consensus.

Mr. Burr also won ground after Congress passed a $10 billion federal tobacco buyout favored by many farmers.

The first snap readers' poll on the newspaper Le Parisien's website suggested Hollande had won ground.

Each side hopes to win ground by boiling down one of the most complex policy discussions in history into digestible nuggets.

On December 26 he repulsed a British attack, and on January 21 , 1942 Rommel unleashed an offensive that took the British by surprise, throwing back the 8th Army in disorder and forcing it to abandon most of its newly won ground.