This sense of opacity and impenetrability gives the authorities the upper hand.

法律的不透明及晦涩使当局占了上风。

Dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.

止水和死沙在争斗着谁占上风。

And remember, the majority party won't be in the majority forever.

请记住, 数党永远不会占据上风。

Buck's marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead.

巴克不可思议的迅速和敏捷占了上风。

In other words, sellers have the upper hand.

换句话说，卖方占了上风。

Eventually, the views of Rabbi Hillel prevailed on most issues.

最终，希勒尔学派的观点在大数问题上占了上风。

Although flesh-eating piranhas sometimes attack people, humans tend to have the last laugh.

虽然食鱼有时也会攻击类，但最终还是类占据上风。

A greeting that gets the upper hand.

一个争取上风的问候。

They may struggle to gain ground on the winners.

他们很难在与获胜者的竞争中占上风。

He was aware of having an advantage now.

他知道自已现在占了上风。

So, sellers in many of those areas, well, they don't have the upper hand anymore.

所，些地区的卖家，他们不再占据上风了。

Iraqi government forces quickly gained the upper hand and Kurdish Peshmerga fled.

伊拉克政府军迅速占了上风，库尔德敢死队逃跑。

It may appear Britain has the upper hand, but there's a big catch.

英国似乎占了上风，但里有一个大问题。

Then she's always cheering for the winning team.

样她就随时都能够为占上风的球队加油。

Someone who has a high hand is domineering.

占上风的是专横的。

I started to get on top of them.

我开始占了上风。

This may be particularly useful for Tories positioning themselves for the next leadership contest.

也许会使保守党在下届党魁选举中占尽上风。

Most lawyers think Apple had the better of the initial exchanges.

大数律师认为，苹果公司在最初的几次交锋中占了上风。

What may be an even more misleading metaphor-for artificial intelligence (AI)-seems to be taking hold.

一个可能更具误导性的比喻--对工智能的比喻--似乎正在开始占上风。

But in the Somerset village of Hinton St George, the girls are still on top.

但在英国的辛顿圣乔治的桑莫塞郡，里的女性长寿比例仍占上风。