• Economic stabilisation was undermined, and this helped Slobodan Milosovic to get the upper hand.

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  • Chinese negotiators often use booze to break down barriers and to try to get the upper hand.

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  • When things get staid and lose their volatility, the bad sides of human character get the upper hand: Greed and laziness.

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  • The danger raised by Mr Siniscalco's resignation is that, with their eyes fixed firmly on polling day, the spenders will get the upper hand.

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  • Now, the fight between AMD and Intel is entering a new phase, with both companies falling back on their wits in an effort to get the upper hand.

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  • The Australian, however, finally began to get the upper hand as the set progressed and Ferreira missed two easy forehand volleys in the 10th game to lose his serve.

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  • Whether he believes what he says or not and there are reasons to believe his barbs are Machiavellian in nature, simply a way to get the upper hand on his rival is rather immaterial.

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  • At the heart of the Yale- and Bocconi University-educated economics professor, there rages a battle between the heroic Super Mario and his evil twin, Commissar Monti, each side trying to get the upper hand.

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  • As firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze near Fort Collins, which has burned large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land since it began June 9, local authorities have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.

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  • Partners rarely get the upper hand.

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  • Rather than allowing companies to get the best from both bosses, they trigger damaging internal power struggles as each jockeys for the upper hand.

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  • They told me that they were not allowed to use the hand pump to get water as it belonged to upper caste people.

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