Sentence examples for won ground from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

Though they subsequently won ground engagements at the Battle of Pyongtaek and Battle of Chonan, the North Korean ground troops were taking heavy losses from US air forces.

The instrument has won ground internationally as a concise add-on instrument which yields valuable information pertaining to older people's QoL when used in conjunction with the generic WHOQOL instruments (which has not been validated explicitly for use on older people).

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.

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

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

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.