Sentence examples for won the advantage from inspiring English sources

The balance of power between the regime and the rebels has ebbed and flowed during the 27-month conflict, but the government's recapture of the town of Qusayr from the rebels on June 5th has reinforced a feeling that Mr Assad has recently won the advantage.

It may make you feel right at the time, but while you win the advantage, you lose the war".

She allows Sharapova to beat her with two wonderful cross-court forehands to make it deuce, but sends a searing backhand down the line to win the advantage, which she converts with a fine serve that Sharapova gets a racquet to and returns, only to get picked off at the net.

If the player fails to win the advantage point, the score goes back to deuce.

Since 2003, the league that wins the All-Star Game has also won the home-field advantage for the World Series.

Los Matadores won the match, taking advantage of Heath Slater, who was distracted by Hornswoggle's wig problems.

If New England wins, the home advantage goes to the MetroStars.

On another occasion she lingers and stares at Kate's bike before a race and implants the idea that something could be wrong; she wins the mental advantage, and the quicker start.

The Templars, who in recent years won the turf battle, took advantage of the fact that Michoacán is Mexico's biggest producer of iron ore.

Orlando never trailed and won the series, 4-2, advantageage that appears misleading for how close the series turned on James's dramatics.

The Lincolns' sacrifices rarely won the Republic any tactical advantage, and, as Hochschild reports, foreign volunteers in Spain were "killed at nearly three times the rate of the rest of the Republican Army".