high ground

Paul has consistently used Benghazi as a device to stake out high ground on foreign policy.

That is the high ground of the battle if Democrats will seize it.

He has staked out the high ground on immigration reform and gun control.

The Moores live in the neighborhood of Great Kills, on high ground and beyond the mandatory evacuation zone.

Someone could have been on high ground and had that over them.

When we reached high ground again the twilight was fading to a semicircle of bloodshot gray in the northwest.

He kept to the high ground, not venturing to the plains, for the population had outwardly passed to the English peace again.

Myonnesus is situated upon high ground resembling a peninsula.

We passed another town before daylight, and I was going out again; but it was high ground, so I didn't go.

The local authorities at once took high ground, and put twelve of the recusants into the Ecclesiastical Court.