By breaking this rule, these GOP members proactively threw away whatever moral high ground they might have had -- granted, there's not much moral high ground in Washington.
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His farm wasn't flooded -- he lives on high ground.
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The title of the second, longer section, "The Ultimate High Ground," alludes to both the literal heights of space and the moral high ground that questions war as a means to peace.
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The state media have so far taken the high ground.
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But by doing so, the downloader retained the high ground.
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Doing so would put them on the moral high ground.
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But does this buy these corporations any moral high ground?
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If we attack on everything, we lose the high ground.
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What's more, he was claiming high ground for Facebook's values.
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I'm not really claiming the moral high ground personally, here.
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Criticism delivered from a purported moral high ground deserves special scrutiny.
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The move gave Paul the moral high-ground he was seeking.
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So who came out of this with the moral high ground?
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That difference has provided the GOP with a moral high ground.
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Kovacs is defending high ground against an equal-strength Vietcong force.
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President Trump, rather than Speaker Pelosi, has the moral high ground.
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The goal is always to get, or make, the high ground.
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There's nothing like claims of moral high ground on a campaign.
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There is no high ground here for anyone, let's be real.
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Sisyphus can't get his boulder to keep to the high ground.
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Many of our leaders are no longer on moral high ground.
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You take the high ground, rather than fight up the hill.
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What happens when the left cedes the free speech high ground?
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High ground wanted by some may also be coveted by others.
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"I think he really answered that well and took the high ground."
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When Antifa people hit cops they lose legal and moral high ground.
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Many rushed to high ground to escape a flood that never came.
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Loose talk removes the United States from the moral high ground elsewhere.
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Christ is an important figure when you enter the moral high ground.
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By assuming this posture, I'm not saying I have moral high ground.
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He's a crack shot and has a nose for the high ground.
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Australia takes the moral high ground and justifies its ruthless political approach.
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But even before Trump spoke, Democrats were operating from political high ground.
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Democrats don't own the moral high ground when it comes to creation.
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Not 'taking the moral high ground' as you suggest (1/2) pic.twitter.
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Take the moral high ground above Trump and his supporters' low road.
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Obama ceded the moral high ground on torture prior to taking office.
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Or was he posing as the owner of the moral high ground?
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"We just found high ground as quickly as we could," she said.
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King, in particular, has been explicit in taking the moral high ground.
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Only Trump could contrive to cede the moral high ground to Iran.
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We have to celebrate this secured high ground and see what lies ahead.
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Apple has long claimed the moral high ground when it comes to privacy.
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Then we lose the moral high ground to criticize Russia for its actions.
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They also resent the idea that the West holds a moral high ground.
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It's a topic where neither candidate has much high ground to stand upon.
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Im not bothered by pathetic people trying to take the moral high ground.
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Somewhat surprisingly, Nadella is also claiming the moral high ground in his decision.
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These days, the moral high ground is the providence of the progressive movement.
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In the 1990s, it was conservatives who occupied the hallowed moral high ground.
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Does one side hold the moral high ground until the casualty count shifts?
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We were based on the hilltops here, taking the high ground as such.
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If not it will evolve too slowly and lose this strategic high ground.
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"When you lose the moral high ground, you lose it all," he said.
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The United States has taken the moral high ground by leaving the UNHRC.
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It's hard to know who has the moral high ground in this fight.
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We lose our moral high ground to discourage other countries from doing that.
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Hardware is the strategic high ground during platform shifts, and these guys know it.
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She was cheerful on the phone—at least she had the moral high ground.
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Once you start, it's hard to stop, and you lose the moral high ground.
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Animals are seeking refuge on high ground, including hills outside the park, she said.
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China, the most powerful nation, has the high ground and the most hydropower potential.
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I think it's important that we challenge that graciously, always from the high ground.
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"Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?" is a good one.
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"They may have been marooned on high ground at Bramble Cay," Dr. Leung said.
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However, they lost that moral high ground in a series of missteps, from Sen.
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Will we default back to DOD Directive 3000.09 and claim the moral high ground?
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One of the most basic principles of warfare is to take the high ground.
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In a sense, Republicans had been evacuated to high ground, away from the beach.
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"We hold the high ground, and we shall never give it up," he said.
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But the moral high ground is a fragile perch, best visited on rare occasions.
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And there's a huge issue where pro football has the moral high ground: money.
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They've let too much go by to try and assert moral high ground now.
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Mr. Trump's tweets only gave Democratic leaders the opportunity to grab the high ground.
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We'd been there for hours, having staked out a plum spot on high ground.
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His methods — boycotts, mass strikes and seizing the moral high ground — inspired the Rev.
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A long-held military maxim is to take the high ground and hold it.
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Restaurants reopened, and people were retrieving their cars from medians and other high ground.
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Americans may like shopping, but they like having the moral high ground even more.
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Trump&aposs openness to the symbolic offer appeared to cede the high ground to Putin.
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You probably know that having the high ground has been a tactical advantage for millennia.
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It provides a moral high ground to prey on the weak, to justify almost anything.
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Still, all you can do is take the high ground and see if they follow.
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If Palestinians marched peacefully, without guns and explosives, they would take the moral high ground.
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"We're trying to take the high ground," Forrest Hinton told BuzzFeed News after the meeting.
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It allows him to stake out the moral high ground without any real-world consequences.
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The monastery was actually a farmhouse on high ground some 20 miles north of Carlisle.
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It exposed, yet again, that Republicans hold no moral high-ground in calling out Rep.
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He spied an enemy combatant on high ground, who appeared to have a sniper's rifle.
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But time often proves aesthetic permanence, as well as moral high ground, to be illusory.
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The only way to win in these situations is to regain the moral high ground.
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The terminal moraine, the mounds of rubble left behind, form much of their high ground.
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If I do this I need to do this standing on the moral high ground.
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To some degree, the moral high ground on this issue is beyond the party's reach.
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Relegated to the minority, however, Democrats are trying to stake out the moral high ground.
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That's not necessarily bad, but nor is it a ticket to the moral high ground.
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Jeb Bush for the most part sought a moral high ground over Trump, while Sen.
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However, in doing so, Claudia has taken a moral high ground on the people around Lucious.
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Meanwhile, Wikileaks continued to show just how far from the moral high ground it has fallen.
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This is important in terms of taking the high ground in the tensions with North Korea.
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The village is on high ground but it's flanked by ISIS-controlled villages on either side.
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Local lore had it that if a typhoon was coming, safety was in the high ground.
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That has left American companies facing an uphill battle to claim high ground in this realm.
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Randall is sympathetic, but still takes a moral high ground on what is best for Deja.
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That moral high ground is a mirage, a fiction, sustained only by the silence of women.
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That realm is the next high ground, where nations are straining to gain a strategic advantage.
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"We have the moral high ground here, and all the leverage," Trump said in the memo.
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This insult has the added bonus of yielding any high ground the insulter may have had.
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More than 130,000 displaced Mozambicans are living in more than 150 makeshift camps on high ground.
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Now President Trump has ceded the moral high ground and freed Iran from all those constraints.
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We can seize the moral high ground from the panderers on the Left on this issue.
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On the island, the defense plan spread troops thinly around the coast, ignoring the high ground.
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Whatever political power conservatives hold, progressives occupy the cultural high ground, and they strike without mercy.
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Taking the moral high ground on money "sounds cool in a campaign speech," James told CNN.
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"Two years ago, many brave young people in Hong Kong established moral high ground about democracy and governance, and I think it would be a tragedy if that high ground was lost because of a few antics about so-called independence for Hong Kong," he said.
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Your boyfriend is claiming the moral high ground because, by his definition, he's not doing anything wrong.
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But Bill Clinton remains a bothersome obstacle to their assuming the moral high ground on sexual harassment.
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And it&aposs pretty amazing that Maxine Waters would give Donald Trump the high ground on civility.
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But I knew it would take much longer to reach high ground if he went with me.
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But it also might let Facebook claim some moral high ground over one of its competitors: Apple.
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Cap walks away with the moral high ground, having learned only that he was right all along.
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Mr Trump, having little understanding of institutions or esteem for the moral high ground, rejects them all.
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"Someone takes the high ground and picks off targets who don't see it coming," the official says.
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The terminal moraine which marks its greatest extent forms a strip of high ground across the borough.
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Robert is from Darrow, Daigle from Prairieville, and they both are fortunate to live on high ground.
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When will dems see that they get nothing by taking the "high ground" except a 6ft grave.
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INGRAHAM: No. We exposed bad cardigans, and the Democrats craven attempts to get the immigration high ground?
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But, as Tumblr user empyrean-sea points out it doesn't necessarily give vegans a moral high ground.
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Being in possession of the moral high ground on every issue, there is nothing to debate. Period.
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But the prime minister will claim the high ground by accusing Labor of being beholden to unions.
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They sit on high ground, so even though his city is paralyzed McIngvale isn't worried about flooding.
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The five-man black hole that had us storming the high ground and taking a tense game.
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But they will surely be cited in legal briefings nonetheless, potentially undermining the government's moral high ground.
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And Democrats bought into it in Franken's case -- which doesn't leave them with any high ground here.
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Clinton, who is pulling away in the contest with Bernie Sanders, should stick to the high ground.
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It does, however, create a tactical situation where the Republicans in the Senate have the high ground.
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Ocasio-Cortez doesn't pretend to take the moral high ground or strive for a clinical, prosecutorial demeanor.
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They may be at the bottom of the career ladder, but they retain the moral high ground.
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Saying that you failed to make a ton of money hardly gives you the ethical high ground.
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The modern nomination and confirmation process is a mess with no clear moral high ground in it.
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Distinguishing architectural feature: The ballpark was built on high ground in Washington Heights, thus earning its name.
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But I think that he amply covers the high ground by reaching out to Obama and Bush.
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We have ceded large swaths of the moral high ground, from which we derived substantial security dividends.
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Right now we have the moral high ground, and I think that's where we need to stay.
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Still, the West doesn't have nearly as much moral high ground as it might like to believe.
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By Rivka Galchen For me, the unforgivable sin is the assumption of certainty and the moral high ground.
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But Hughes said she knows the risk and is staying, even though the trailer isn't on high ground.
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And if you do have the dough to eat 100 percent clean, you hold the moral high ground.
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It was then scheduled for Tuesday, but had to be pushed until Wednesday due to high ground winds.
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Why it matters: Being "open" allowed tech innovators and companies to claim a sort of moral high ground.
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But while other networks took the moral high ground, ABC took the ratings: All that jiggled was gold.
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Those periods have become broad theory, used to gain rhetorical leverage and appropriated to establish moral high ground.
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As #NeverTrumps, they may claim some moral high ground, but those who add #NeverCruz have no fig leaf.
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It gives nations a talking point: We are better than you because we have the moral high ground.
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The Clinton campaign was not amused, but do they really have the moral high ground on this one?
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Democrats have succeeded not just in losing the high ground but in bulldozing it flat with this attack.
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And right now, I suspect there are plenty of House Republicans looking for the high ground of retirement.
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If America does not desire a subordinate place in this arrangement, then it must capture the high ground.
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But by taking the high ground, the committee has so far punted on making any determination about collusion.
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These proposals should grab the constructive, conservative high ground on issues such as education, technology, defense and immigration.
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When you've ceded the moral high ground to the Trump administration, you've ceded a piece of your soul.
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Mr. Netanyahu is incapable of holding the moral high ground at either the personal or the political level.
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But be careful: That moral high ground you're standing on might not be as solid as you think.
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Democrats do not need to prove that they are smarter than Republicans or occupy some moral high ground.
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We gradually reestablished some degree of moral high ground and once again became trusted partners in the region.
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Ah-Q rationalizes that he has succeeded despite his repeated failures because he has the moral high ground.
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You often stumble upon soldiers with their backs turned to you, or when you have the high ground.
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"Relinquishing the high ground of the Golan Heights could put Israel at a great security disadvantage," Friedman said.
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She always takes the moral high ground and is depicted as being exceptionally intelligent, but not overly ambitions.
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Even Biden's campaign knows the extreme value that moral high ground is to his entire brand, as it pushes the narrative that the real reason he entered the race was to take the moral high ground over Trump in response to the president's reaction to the 2017 racist marches in Charlottesville.
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A warning was issued in advance and citizens were urged to seek high ground and take the necessary precautions.
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That moral high ground generates tremendous goodwill around the world for us, and it's a huge source of power.
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For their part, Mr Balint suggests, they wished to occupy the high ground of "European universalism against Israeli particularism".
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If you're not on a timer, for example, finding safe, high ground for your sharpshooter is a huge help.
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She's challenging at times, and despite her immense wit, she's not always right or on a moral high ground.
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By writing to the government as this political drama flared, the banks seemed to have seized the high ground.
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Nor has China, which has seized the rhetorical high ground vacated by America, matched its fine words with actions.
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Is it about wild proclamations or is it about policy that leads us to moral high ground as Americans?
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"Right now we have the moral high ground and I think that's where we need to stay," he said.
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That will create ripples globally, because Britain is effectively abandoning the high ground it staked out in the 1980s.
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To simplify, the first group watches the second abandoning the moral high ground and wonders: What are they thinking?
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Letter From Africa JOHANNESBURG — Outsiders have long claimed the moral high ground in accusing African elites of endemic corruption.
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Democrats fought Wednesday to take back the moral high ground on issues of sexual misconduct, rushing to push Sen.
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The refreshing thing about Donald Trump is he understands that he has no claim to the moral high ground.
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By expanding its access to ordinary Kashmiris and fostering accountability for violations, India could win the moral high ground.
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He has not been able to turn this into a debate on immigration, where he holds the high ground.
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One, the United Launch Alliance rocket launch, has already been canceled due to high ground winds, the company said.
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It gives Kim a significant esteem boost with his domestic audience and allows him to take the high ground.
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Eastman should do all he can to move DHS to the moral high ground where migrant health is concerned.
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McCarthy's stunt may have been cynical, but the Democrats were in no position to claim the moral high ground.
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If America executes Baluchi, Pradhan believes, it will cede whatever eroding toehold it has on a moral high ground.
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The rule in most television dramas is that the person with the moral high ground gets the last word.
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Without trees, soil on the high ground around the city is saturated by downpours, and the land is eroded.
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The abortion request in this story is secondary to the primary failure of someone who claims moral high ground.
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Here are those who reached high ground and those who were underwater at the end of the long evening.
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Here was a snooper in the attic claiming the moral high ground while passing judgment on unsuspecting people below.
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Republicans have surrendered the moral high ground they thought they held, and have dived face-first into the sewer.
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" He added: "Right now we have the moral high ground, and I think that's where we need to stay.
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Democrats believe they have the high ground on this issue, and they are not about to let up on Republicans.
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"Government vehicles are moving to high ground, we have been told to initiate total lockdown measures immediately," the source added.
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Trump is making racism his trademark, spending his time energizing racists while decisively removing America from the moral high ground.
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Soldiers interviewed on Mayadeen and Syrian television said that the army was completing the capture of high ground overlooking Palmyra.
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On his second trip, he found a group of people clustered in front of a neighbor's home on high ground.
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Once they agree to your terms, though, a person whose power stems from the moral high ground has to accept.
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And in the eyes of many of her partners, Germany no longer enjoys the moral high ground on economic issues.
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Instead, Washington should maintain the high ground and put more effort in seeking a diplomatic solution to the INF crisis.
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Obama told her to just "try to find some high ground," and hold on to it, Rhodes recalled to me.
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Those in the anti-choice movement has forfeited the moral high ground of their crusade to stigmatize abortion as murder.
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Evacuation centres were set up at schools and government buildings on high ground amid reports of landslides and flooded roads.
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Somehow, in the wake of the Weinstein revelations, the president's supporters appear to believe they hold the moral high ground.
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But they were perceived, especially by serialists based in universities who claimed the intellectual high ground, as dated and irrelevant.
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Partly because children's podcast creators are claiming the moral high ground on screen time, advertising is controversial for the medium.
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Liberals controlled the universities, the news media, the cultural high ground, so the right attracted many people with outsider personalities.
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We headed off in a convoy of Land Rovers to an exposed patch of high ground a few miles away.
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Other ideas include extending a boardwalk from the center to high-ground parking lots closer to the slightly higher road.
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The magazine's editors tried to take the rhetorical high ground, arguing that all sides were flawed and impeachment wasn't warranted.
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But when old people make decisions that cause young people to die, it isn't hard to seize the high ground.
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Maggie Seymour is a 2018 Fellow with High Ground Veterans Advocacy and a member of the Truman National Security Project.
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Seeking to cover clearing operations around them, Iraqi soldiers are always climbing, seeking the high ground of rooftops and corners.
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A no-tariffs trade strategy would also allow the United States to seize the moral high ground in the debate.
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Democrats have appeared determined to grab the moral and political high ground, largely forcing their accused party members to resign.
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Turkey is the accuser in this situation, but President Recep Erdoğan is in no position to claim the moral high ground.
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By Sunday, a Harris County judge called on citizens with boats to evacuate trapped residents and get them to high ground.
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But that also means he doesn't really have any moral high ground to stand on at this point, in my opinion.
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From order to chaos and moral high ground to inhumanity, lines have been crossed in the women's prison in season five.
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Iran immediately agrees because of the devastation of its military and the sense that it has gained the moral high ground.
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"I was visiting Little Haiti, where historically lower income families have lived, but you know—it's on high ground," he said.
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"The moral high ground is a shaky place to be in the Senate when it comes to judges," Mr. Graham said.
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Such moves are clearly designed to regain the moral high ground when it comes to men behaving badly with women. 4.
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She votes with the most right-wing members of her party, even while attempting to occupy some imaginary moral high ground.
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As a modern city, Venice is worryingly prone to floods, but as a living cultural artifact, it holds the high ground.
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In short, the current Air Force plan for the Space Force will lose the race to dominant the strategic high ground.
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Her attempts to assume the moral high ground fell flat compared with the rest of her debate performance in these areas.
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Mr. Erdogan appears determined to maintain pressure on Saudi Arabia and to keep the moral high ground over a regional rival.
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Like Mr. Wilson, the two companies moved cars to high ground, in some cases to storage lots away from their dealerships.
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They kept the high ground as the zone rotated around a mountain and stopped all attempts to reach the safe zone.
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However, in taking down FIFA and pushing hard to squeeze a buck, the US just may lose the moral high ground.
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Democrats hope by forcing Al Franken to step down, they will paint themselves as the party of the moral high ground.
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Google and YouTube could certainly help alleviate these problems, but I don't know that labels have the moral high ground here.
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She should have called that out and said that that&aposs wrong if she actually wanted to take the moral high ground.
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As the Times points out, Apple has tried to claim the "moral high ground" on these types of issues in the past.
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Long understands that by donating his entire salary to education initiatives, he has the moral high ground without having to explain himself.
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Vladimir Putin would like us to abandon those ideas because Putin, ISIS, they don't want us to have that moral high ground.
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Also, in those games, because you only have one life, having that high ground when it matters can win you the game.
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The Republicans want to reclaim a moral high ground and confront China on its human rights record, territorial ambitions, and cyber activities.
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If leaders reject the resources, then the giving country has a moral high ground, and a message to take to the people.
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He seized the moral high ground, and from that vantage point, he mowed down his adversaries with ruthless efficiency and terrifying effectiveness.
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The priest at Sunday Mass waded forcefully into the political maelstrom, looking safely down from pulpit, ensconced in the moral high ground.
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Senate Democrats Democrats thought they had the moral high ground even if they lacked a majority in the House or the Senate.
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In their search for high ground on the issue of sexual harassment and misconduct, Senate Democrats forced one of their own, Sen.
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Were any of those groups to gain access to the strategic high ground overlooking northern Israel, Israeli communities would be at risk.
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I even put you both on some nice "high ground" by a nest, because, hey, you seem to really like bloodfly nests.
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Perel notes that we've replaced it with terms that give the moral high ground to the betrayed: trauma, intrusive thought, attachment injury.
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The time of ceding the high ground to streetwear; the time when designers blathered on about "just clothes," is at an end.
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Take the moral high ground and publicly declare (perhaps on Twitter) that the noose is repugnant and offends every right-thinking American.
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People fled to high ground in the center of the island, but it "merely delayed the inevitable," the National Weather Service wrote.
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We have been routed, and are surrounded on all sides by a powerful enemy who holds the high ground and the initiative.
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He struck for high ground and tied himself to a sturdy tree to witness destruction and the island's reaction in the aftermath.
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And in 21992, Susan B. Anthony claimed that when women earned the right to vote, they'd collectively seize the moral high ground.
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For me, the unforgivable sin in literature is the same as that in life: the assumption of certainty and the moral high ground.
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Maybe. Now, your generosity may not be reciprocated, but before we decide to match anger with anger, why not take the high ground.
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"Particularly in an urban scenario where the high ground is on top of buildings, climbing is a very, very important capability," Main said.
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Maybe it's because I don't buy Akerman's delivery, but I just don't believe Lara when she ascends any kind of moral high ground.
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Part of what is so spectacular about the decline of Sino-optimism is how recently and how thoroughly it held the high ground.
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Taking the high ground, ClimateScientist distracted the enemy as SuperDad64 and company rushed in and took out the second to last enemy player.
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Those in the West can seize the moral high ground, refusing to sacrifice their principles to satisfy the demands of the Chinese state.
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Cameraman Rolf Steinmann and polar guide Jason Roberts get to high ground to look for polar bears hunting on the ice off Svalbard.
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But there&aposs a debate among that side: Do you take the high ground when you&aposre attacked or do you return fire?
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Both claim the moral high ground, yet both demonstrate the same desire to blow up things (and relationships) and put innocents at risk.
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We were racing to the high ground, for what purpose we didn't know, but we didn't want the enemy to get there first.
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The protests have given Mr Sadr a chance to reclaim the spotlight as a national leader and room to claim the high ground.
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Mueller could call Comey as a witness, but a jury might have difficulty seeing the moral high ground from where Comey is sitting.
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What's different now, after Janus, is that the unions can no longer even pretend they hold the moral high ground in this debate.
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The German chancellor has consistently taken the moral high ground in response to Europe's refugee crisis and advocated for an open-door policy.
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Through Ms. Jeong's continued employment, The Times has now lost significant credibility and any moral high ground to criticize or condemn such behavior.
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We moved my daughter up and out of the flood zones to high ground in an Airbnb because she is 37.5 weeks pregnant.
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He has successfully claimed the moral high ground vacated by the American president, and he has kept up the pressure on Saudi Arabia.
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Ultimately, however these dilemmas play out, we lose: either the moral high ground or men whom we need, admire and maybe even love.
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But Boeing and other officials hope that removing the tax break could give it the high ground in the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.
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Virtue signaling can be a way of staking out a position in an argument — not just the high ground, but the highest ground.
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Throughout this process, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats sought the moral high ground, they lost sight of two important realities.
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Retaining the high ground in research and engineering is necessary to deter future conflicts, win future wars and maintain our standard of living.
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Some seemed almost gleeful at the prospect of seizing the moral high ground denied them over two years of rationalizing a depraved administration.
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In a material and metaphorical sense, the installation is impossible to negotiate from any moral high ground of universal reason or common sense.
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I think that he maintains the high ground and maintains a position of -- I want to say dominance, really, when you think about it.
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The assault came after government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, managed to capture several hills and high ground around the town earlier this week.
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He once again defended his actions as "nothing illegal" and sought to grab back the political high ground by attacking the other presidential candidates.
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Take the high ground for the kids' sake—they will learn this from you, and learn how to act in the face of adversity.
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In an interview with the LA Times, Rohrabacher said the US doesn't hold "a moral high ground" when it comes to influencing foreign elections.
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Unlike eastern Henan, a plain coursed through by the Yellow River that is prone to flooding and, historically, famine, Luoyang is on high ground.
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Trump said Friedman and others in the room explained the Golan was important for Israel because it was a high ground essential for security.
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Standing desks are the latest way to trade comfort for the moral high ground, and their health benefits have always been dubious at best.
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A move from the high ground of Little Haiti to the low ground of Homestead could, under the wrong circumstances, be a death sentence.
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China can then take the moral high ground, casting itself as a champion of global trade norms—even though it is quite protectionist itself.
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In so doing, Democrats abandoned the high-ground consensus (such as it was) that the No Fly List and Terrorist Watch List are bad.
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And now the Democrats, who too often sprint to the moral high ground, are facing at least two years without any control in Washington.
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Professor Charles Xavier, one of the most beloved characters that's traditionally portrayed as holding the moral high ground in the battle of good vs.
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Kaine tried to cast Pence as a bigot unsuccessfully and instead came across as overly chipper and eager to hold the moral high ground.
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Yet America is the high ground when it comes to automation, according to a new report* from the same pair along with other authors.
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But with time running out and the Saviors gaining strength and supplies every day, they don't have the luxury of the moral high ground.
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Our political system would work better if it functioned in the real world and not in the rarified air of the moral high ground.
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Eager to hold the high ground, Ford's new Expedition can lay claim to the superlative of best-in-class towing potential among full-sizers.
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Every major military power realizes space is the ultimate "high ground" for battle, and that whoever "owns" space will dominate future global military conflicts.
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Despite inhabiting a partisan swamp in recent years, members of Congress have been able to find some high ground where they could come together.
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"We are going to put you on the moral high ground—so high that you'll need an oxygen mask," one of them told him.
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"We believe that we hold the high ground with regard to the dispute with Apple," Qualcomm Chief Executive Steve Mollenkopf said in a statement.
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The survey found that Comey hasn't gained the moral high ground over Trump in the public's mind: 35% say they believe Comey over Trump.
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In short, the nonrecognition policy kept the U.S. on the moral high ground on the basis of principles, values and commitment to international law.
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In pressing Franken to step aside, Democrats have tried to capture the moral high ground and draw a distinction between their party and Republicans.
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To accomplish this and successfully retake the House this year, the Democrats must do more than criticize Trump and claim the moral high ground.
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Earlier in the week, the prime minister of a tiny nation tried to nudge the mighty United States back to the moral high ground.
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But it also ceded what once had been very high ground, and dispensed with the most romantic notions about what fashion magazines can be.
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Although no treaty is perfect, the negotiators deserve credit for having chosen the moral high ground to express their discontent with the existing order.
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Pundits and reporters are challenging Comey about whether he ceded the high ground by mocking Trump's hair, skin and hand size, among other things.
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"Every day that passes, these traumas are killing people," said Kristofer Goldsmith, an Army veteran and president of the High Ground Veterans Advocacy group.
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Or is it some form of shame that these other people are "taking a moral high ground" or "think they are better than me"?
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It's easier for someone who believes they're on a moral high ground to ignore warnings and surround themselves with the people who agree with them.
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Like most mainstream superheroes, Spider-Man is largely known for pulverizing enemies within an inch of their life, while maintaining an acute moral high ground.
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On the other hand, the home in Little Haiti, which sits on high ground with little risk of flooding, is appreciating at a fast clip.
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The latest advance came after intense preparatory artillery, a multi-pronged assault and gains in high ground commanding nearby areas, the non-Syrian commander said.
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If they do not make a case at the WTO but retaliate anyway, they have given up the high ground and things will probably escalate.
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The FBI never actually backed down — instead it found a third party to do the work — while Apple escaped without ceding the moral high ground.
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Also, as much as Dake claims to take the moral high ground, he also seems too wrapped up in his job to think big picture.
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Kristol may now think that he has the moral high ground, unlike high-profile conservatives such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Rep.
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It allows the party to take the moral high ground—a position that it has not earned through any of its own actions and policies.
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The left-wing Syriza government's policy of taking the moral high ground on asylum-seekers, while admirable, has made things harder for Greek civil servants.
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And Corker also added that Trump's decision to shrug off the Khashoggi killing and side with Saudi Arabia undercut the United States' moral high ground.
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To buttress his case that Democrats don't occupy the moral high ground, French claims that Hillary Clinton's record on women is no better than Trump's.
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To extend the wave analogy: The Republican House is on very high ground, and it will take a particularly large wave to bring it down.
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"Kenyatta's Jubilee government seems intent on wrecking every chance it gets of occupying the high ground," read a note from research group NKC African Economics.
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Pictures posted on social media showed scores of cattle trapped on patches of high ground surrounded by water, or dead and dying in the mud.
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Canadians like to take a moral high ground when it comes to immigration or human rights, but our country is founded upon those same wrongdoings.
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Why it matters: McCain, with the unique high ground he commands on the issue, could cost the acting CIA director votes for the top job.
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It defies stereotype: Vegan food in America is supposed to be joyless and unfulfilling, seasoned only with the fermented tang of the moral high ground.
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For a book and a play that are largely about the moral high ground, the legal brouhaha unfolded in a kind of boggy moral bottomland.
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If Trump had any moral high ground following Pelosi's stifling of the State of the Union address, it quickly crumbled after he canceled her trip.
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An issue can be encrusted with so many layers of "politicization" that an appeal to an apolitical high ground ends up looking like mere posturing.
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To break down the image of the moral high ground that these institutions sought to maintain, they would instigate violent responses using non-violent bait.
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"We have the moral high ground here, and all the leverage," Trump writes in his strangely crumpled memo, which includes mention of drugs and gangs.
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Here's the thing: If you want to claim the moral high ground in a fight over terminating pregnancy, you have to support effective family planning.
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At the time of its premiere, composers who wrote in complex modernist idioms and claimed the intellectual high ground dismissed "Vanessa" as hopelessly Neo-Romantic.
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These few bad apples were willing to cross the line into violence, surrendering the moral high ground — their greatest asset in fighting hatred and bigotry.
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Whatever the case, she has now firmly and permanently ceded any claim she ever had to high ground -- and to the art of democratic statesmanship.
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Mr. Bakhsh says he does not recall much of the fighting other than that the insurgents had the high ground and the Soviets did not.
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Firing down on North Korea from the ultimate high ground of space would add another layer of defense behind anti-missile cruisers and aerial drones.
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Star Trek: Discovery just wrapped a first season that grapples with some implications of the wider Star Trek universe's approach to the moral high ground.
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It's a brand that relishes its place on the moral high ground, to the understandable frustration of someone who's had a different experience with the brand.
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Against such predatory machines, along with gargantuan models such as the Sequoia, Titan, and Armada, everyone needs to up armor and fight for the high ground.
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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told CNBC the ruling gives the Philippines and other Southeast-Asian countries aggrieved by China's assertiveness the moral high ground.
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Ultimately, this message will be more compelling than just claiming the moral high ground and providing some sort of counterweight to President Trump and the Republicans.
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Ideally, you should try to head for high ground or the far north, as historical accounts show that zombies don't fare well at sub-zero temperatures.
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We will not retreat or surrender – we will not surrender our values, we will not surrender our ideals, we will not surrender the moral high ground.
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NASA/ESA Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be.
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She reached the city's convention center, which had developed into a makeshift shelter -- without adequate provisions -- on a sliver of high ground along the Mississippi River.
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When it emerged that he had fallen behind on alimony payments to his first wife, critics argued he was unfit to take the moral high ground.
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Moore, in short, wanted the Christian right to reclaim the moral high ground—and Trump, in his estimation, was about as low as you could get.
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Kristofer Goldsmith is an Iraq Veteran, the founder of High Ground Veterans Advocacy, and assistant director for Policy and Government Affairs at Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Democrats must realize there is little value in having the moral high ground, on either climate or the budget, without the political power to implement solutions.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is under fire at home and in Europe for having taken the moral high ground by welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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This kind of art criticism preferences the conceptual, sounds smart and naturally proclaims moral high ground, but it's a narrowing of human potential, not an enlargement.
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"Democrats should look in the mirror before they wrongly claim the moral high ground on equal pay," said RNC co-chair Sharon Day in a statement.
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In the future, if our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guard are the only ones dying, will the moral high ground still be worth it?
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We were not born a divided nation / It's time to step up / Reclaim the high ground / And give future generations a united America ANSWERS: 1. O'Rourke2.
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High ground might be a good idea, he suggests, as that's where he's built his own off-grid home at an "undisclosed location" in the Appalachians.
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Moore lost his bid for U.S. Senator, but Democrats will still relish using his name to claim the political high ground in the continued #MeToo backlash.
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It gives a better view of surrounding terrain, and it forces the enemy to strike upwards while the man on the high ground is striking down.
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Kristofer Goldsmith is an Iraq Veteran, the founder of High Ground Veterans Advocacy, and Assistant Director for Policy and Government Affairs at Vietnam Veterans of America.
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After 2.5 years of being ruthlessly copied while trying to maintain the moral high ground, Snapchat is finally fighting back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones.
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For Ms. Collins, it's often meant voting with the most right-wing members of her party, even while attempting to occupy some imaginary moral high ground.
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Fukuroi City authorities have built 73 evacuation centers in vulnerable areas of the municipality because much of the area is flat with little natural high ground.
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Dave Stewart, owner of Kayak Hanalei, had boarded up the windows on his shop by mid-afternoon and moved the company's rental kayaks to high ground.
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Accordingly, whiteness and wrongness have become interchangeable — the high ground is now accessible only by way of "allyship," which is to say silence and total repentance.
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Let me try to explain what I think is happening: After World War II the Protestant establishment dominated the high ground of American culture and politics.
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Past research has shown that people worry that those who claim the moral high ground will look down on others whose behavior seems unfavorable by comparison.
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Scott Jennings: Trump grabs the optimism high ground from sulking Democrats Donald Trump is having the best week of his presidency, and it's only half over.
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The helicopter struck the earth about a half-mile from Church in the Canyon, on high ground scorched by the massive Woolsey fire in November 26.
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It should reflect the fact that we have the high ground on the issue, and the leverage to assist China and its neighbors in constructively engaging.
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Instead, Romney straddled that swamp masquerading as moral high ground where he rejected everybody, took no responsibility for anybody, and therefore was no help at all.
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They say inaction could make it increasingly difficult for the US military and diplomats around the world to argue a moral high ground on human rights.
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History shows that most of the time partisans would prefer to lose the moral high ground as opposed to their policy representation or their party's majority.
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And even persons on high ground that need to be rescued, they're trapped on their roofs, in the attic space, and we cannot get to them.
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At their worst, these constructions can feel like narrative tricks — they exploit sexual violence, follow it up with murder, and still claim the moral high ground.
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Not only can Democrats claim the moral high ground, Lawless argued, but they differentiate themselves from the Republicans on an issue that is not wholly partisan.
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American sanctions against oil producers such as Iran and Venezuela meant Washington was vacating the moral high ground as a proponent of free markets, he argued.
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Tapper pressed Pelosi on whether Democrats cede the moral high ground by failing to rebuke a member of their own party for such an off-color remark.
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"The President not only has the bully pulpit, he has the moral high ground," Israel said, and cast doubt on the political savvy of the White House.
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And even despite her weirdness or the fact that she blamed it on Michelle Obama who said take the high ground, so she took the highest ground.
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Two young children use a plastic kiddie pool as a makeshift raft as their family attempt to make it to high ground in Houston on Aug. 28.
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In PUBG and Fortnite, having the high ground is critical because it allows you to obscure parts of your body while having full view of an enemy.
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His loss to Blind, as seen above, involved the latter player having the coveted high ground, which put Niibs at a severe disadvantage as the circle closed.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is under fire at home and across Europe for having taken the moral high ground by welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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As Kim Jong-un, the reclusive leader of North Korea, above right, prepares for a landmark meeting with President Trump, he has seized the diplomatic high ground.
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China and its tech giants are highly unlikely to stand by while U.S., German and Japanese companies seize the high ground in a new self-driving age.
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With short time on the clock and two more points to reach, The Meta stuck together and snuck around to the high ground near the castle doors.
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Christians standing on the same moral high-ground as Mr. Trump will soon find themselves sponsoring hate and division, which Mr. Trump has popularized this election season.
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If you hit it in the head, it'll die a bit faster; if you warp up to high ground, it can give you a slightly better perspective.
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Trump has the political high ground as long as he is trying to stop lawlessness or deter migrant caravans mobilized by left-wing groups in Central America.
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The so-called establishment of the GOP has moved to accommodate Trump and, in so doing, lost any of the strategic high ground they might have maintained.
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" "They think the low blow beat the high ground in 2016," Israel said, adding that Trump has created "an electorate that is angrier, nastier and more desperate.
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There is no moral high ground in claiming to care about those struggling to obtain health care while not attempting to bring forth any ideas for reform.
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"We have the moral high ground here, and all the leverage," Trump wrote in a two-page memo, first obtained by The Washington Post, outlining his strategy.
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So we will not seed the high ground of the ultimate premium coffee experience to anyone, which is why we are investing in the Starbucks reserve brand.
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Our house, which is situated on high ground, was undamaged, and though I knew some of the victims by sight, we didn't lose anyone close to us.
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After nine hungover hours fastened to my sofa this weekend, covered in cookie crumbs, I can safely say from my cultural high-ground: I hate Nancy Wheeler.
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Discerning what might be true in a blizzard of lies isn't easy, and the people who spread those lies don't get to claim the moral high ground.
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The airline's most recent fatal crash occurred in 2002, when a Boeing 737 on approach to Tunis from Cairo hit high ground during a sandstorm, killing 14.
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In our racist and sexist culture, no one is "pure" when it comes to issues of race and gender, and the moral high ground is always precarious.
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"It's clear he was doing it to get on Fox News and call himself a hero," said Kristofer Goldsmith, who runs High Ground Veterans Advocacy, a nonprofit.
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"We ran to the roof, we already had gotten information that we should get to high ground if we think a chemical attack has happened," he said.
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And if Kim did walk away, unwilling to denuclearize, Presidents Trump and Moon would hold the moral high ground, showing the world they did all they could.
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The announcement by the Ukrainian authorities that they had, in fact, made up the Babchenko killing offered the Russians a rare chance to claim the high ground.
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"He doesn't have the moral high ground," Ferguson said of the rapper, calling him an "opportunist" who used the rap as a way to get free press.
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It shows again that China really wants to retain the moral high ground on this issue," Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University, told CNBC's "The Rundown.
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Because of the Islamic State's heavy use of snipers, securing high ground is crucial, and Iraqi forces were nearing the base of the hill by Sunday afternoon.
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In his mind, the Porter situation then isn't a chance to seize the moral high ground and speak to the country about the issue of domestic abuse.
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And Trump's show of racial unity is what they need to feel that, once again, Republicans have the high ground when it comes to race and identity.
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He has abandoned the moral high ground that would have enabled him to lead the fight against the biggest graft scandal in the history of Latin America.
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"In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero-tolerance standard," she went on.
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I understand that it was considered necessary by the people running Operation Julie, but that made them lose any moral high ground they might have thought they had.
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"While people in Iowa are seeking high ground from the floods this week, we cannot have a middle ground proposal to build a clean energy future," he said.
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" Best line We can always count on Violet to score off Isobel, and Sunday night was no exception: "Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?
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Undecided and independent voters will have to decide if they respect her for taking the high ground, or judge her for failing to more aggressively call him out.
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Dave Stewart, owner of Kayak Hanalei, had boarded up all the windows on his shop by mid-afternoon Thursday and moved the company's rental kayaks to high ground.
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Tying it to kids is a good way to stay on the moral high ground, but there aren't a lot of problem gamblers in the under-18 bracket.
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CEO Tim Cook has been able to take the moral high ground because Apple makes its money from hardware rather than off of personal info through ad targeting.
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For all the rhetoric about which party cares more about struggling Americans, punitive cuts such as these make it more difficult for Republicans to claim the high ground.
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If Moore wins & GOP doesn't vote to expel, Dems will nationalize the issue, claim high ground (despite past sins), and, I suspect, draw a LOT of political blood.
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That way, you can take advantage of the high ground in certain spots and even dispatch slow-moving boss enemies by quickly jumping back and forth around them.
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Military strategists have long known the value of taking the high ground, and the remarkable kinetic energy that comes with orbital velocities is a gift to weapon designers.
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Among other things, Trump clearly is trying to gain the political high ground by suggesting that Comey leaked classified information and somehow put America's national security at risk.
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The move could also allow Iran to claim the moral high ground by portraying itself as a reasonable player in the world in comparison to the United States.
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What Wen fails to understand is that abortion is unavoidably political, and that ceding the moral high ground to the right would only hurt the pro-choice cause.
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Meanwhile, Kim seized the high ground -- extending a line of communication to South Korea and discussing the prospect of sending a team to the South's upcoming Olympic games.
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"That means fundamentally taking over not really Hollywood so much as reclaiming the moral high ground with the advent of churches, with the advent of synagogues," he continued.
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Trump could have turned the other cheek and sought the high ground amid the rumpus over the UK ambassador's unsparing memos about his character and dysfunctional White House.
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Democrats said it was untenable for Al Franken to remain in the Senate if their party hoped to maintain the high ground on the issue of sexual harassment.
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The young scholar also kept a close eye on American politics, writing columns in the Harvard Crimson that urged liberals to seize the moral high ground from conservatives.
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It does not plan to protect the Moon or key "lines of communication" or travel corridors in space to and from resource locations and other strategic high ground.
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Democratic senators from solidly blue states are seizing the opportunity to take the moral high ground when it comes to campaign contributions and call for campaign finance reform.
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The privileged, known as the "Netted," have "angelfair" skin and live on high ground, while the "Surplus," whose skin is often "coppertoned," suffer on swampland and rickety houseboats.
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And let's not forget that the 48 Democratic senators have the moral and political high ground here: They represent far more actual votes than the 52 Republican ones.
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"Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital ... The Space Force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground."
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As a senator who had spent more than 300 days helping block President Obama's last Supreme Court nominee in 2016, he had no moral high ground to hold.
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Moving south to north, Iraq's federal police took Abu Saif, a town that sits on high ground overseeing the Mosul airport, before moving on to the airfield itself.
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"These are the same people who disingenuously seized the moral high ground as they attacked our president based on a standard they do not live by," Bannon said.
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They did not have, in my estimation, the right to go in there and surrender the moral high ground and the integrity of our country and for nothing.
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Nima Elbagir, senior international correspondent, London America's loss of the moral high ground and unwillingness to engage has resulted in a contagion of authoritarian overreach around the globe.
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That's because security — or what is also called resilience in the context of climate change and natural disasters — entails more than just high ground and a sturdy roof.
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Another factor is that America's adversaries lack both the technical proficiency to catch it in the act and the moral high ground to embarrass it on the world stage.
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Even worse, he is part of a generation of former democracy activists who tend to think of themselves as occupying the moral high ground on questions of social progress.
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But once again, we're faced with D'Souza claiming a moral high ground that certainly doesn't belong to Republicans, particularly on issues of sexual violence, reproductive rights, and so on.
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Reddit was initially slow to act — letting Pornhub seize the moral high ground and declare it would ban deepfakes from its platform while Reddit appeared to twiddle its thumbs.
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But it's clear there has been heavy fighting and that ISIS has gained the upper hand, taking a number of districts as well as high ground around the city.
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The practice of praying on high ground began in the 1950s, after the division of the peninsula and a war which sent Pyongyang's once-lively Protestant community fleeing south.
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America, betwixt and between Europe and the frontier, the colonialists who broke free from the motherland and brought civilization to the savages, in search of the moral high ground.
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Amazingly, it appears that China, despite an economy much less open than that of the United States, is primed to seize the moral high ground in this trade squabble.
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This is telling in terms of the ethics of footballers smoking, with some inclined to take the moral high ground over such well-paid professionals doing down their bodies.
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A security source said the offensive was making advances with several hills taken in the push against the militants entrenched on fortified high ground, in outposts and in caves.
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Democrats at all levels can seize the high ground on national security, vowing to defend America from all threats, posing a powerful contrast with Trump and his GOP supporters.
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The problem is that without maintaining the high ground on pushing for more diversity in both stories and storytellers, the industry risks regressing back to its more whitewashed days.
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It would only be right for the Moon administration to take the moral high ground and put an end to this nonsense, but there is little reason for hope.
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Turkish forces, backed by warplanes and artillery, captured high ground and three villages near Afrin, a city controlled by a Kurdish militia that Turkey regards as a terrorist threat.
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But if Democrats fight, they hold open the chance that they could win a broadly acceptable nominee — and whether not they get that, they win the moral high ground.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, under fire over the league's handling of domestic violence perpetrated by players and brain injuries, meanwhile seized the chance to capture the moral high ground.
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" As president, he added, he would see his role as that of "a pastor of sorts (to) try to lead us to a moral high ground as a people.
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And I am asking my former employer to do the right thing, to not make me choose between claiming the moral high ground and going back on my word.
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Regarding China, the administration is on the high ground on substance and has laid out its case for responding to Chinese economic misbehavior in its new National Security Strategy.
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"In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero tolerance standard," Ramsey said in a statement.
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The News on Sunday meanwhile urged Sethi to seize the moral high ground by stepping aside in the interests of Pakistan cricket to avoid a damaging "war of succession".
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Yes, in the days of the Civil Rights Movement, the church played a powerful role, as a bastion of moral high ground and an institution supporting and propelling political organization.
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That leaves many state Democrats in a quandary: Should they stick to the moral high ground and seek their resignations, or protect the party's power in a vital battleground state?
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The price strength shows that Manhattan real estate remains a financial high ground for the world's wealth as they seek safety from volatile financial markets and the slowdown in China.
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It also seems to me that Philip didn't buy it — much like he's not exactly buying that the Soviet Union has the moral high ground in this mission they're pursuing.
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The spectacle of sexual harassment in ostensibly liberal industries like Hollywood and in the media seemed at first to offer a kind of moral high ground to the religious right.
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If NFL owners who have Trump $1 million each can find the courage to show moral high ground here, I think the rising stars in the Democratic Party can, too.
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If the Republicans want any moral high ground on cultural questions, it will be much more difficult to claim it with Moore as one of the faces of the party.
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The complexity of the issues related to U.S.-Chinese relations, the nature of Huawei, and Meng's arrest make it extremely challenging to determine which side has the moral high ground.
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"Why is that?" he added Jake, it's laughable to watch you try to claim the moral high ground when the premise of Anderson's attack on me was false (as usual).
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"If there is a particularly brutal crackdown like in 2009, he may feel more empowered to take the moral high ground with the Europeans," Croft told CNBC in an email.
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"Justin Trudeau has to take the high ground on this fairly quickly," said Shachi Kurl, the executive director of the Angus Reid Institute, a nonprofit polling organization based in Vancouver.
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"The government should have taken the moral high ground in taking up the case of the embattled nun," said Father Jerome Secillano of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
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I don't think we can quite pretend like plastic surgery is a totally anodyne force in our culture, but I struggle to find the moral high ground to condemn it.
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Sam Elliot has an excellent cameo as Union Cavalry Brigadier John Buford, who slows the Confederate advance just long enough to allow the Northern army to reach the high ground.
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But observers say the Texas senator has lost some of the moral high ground after controversies about his campaign tactics that have been stoked by rival candidates and their allies.
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In a recent interview with the local network WSFA TV, the Alabama judge — who has denied the allegations against him — presented himself as the candidate of the moral high ground.
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The government and NGOs have built new settlements on high ground far from the city center, but moving there makes little sense for families that fish to make ends meet.
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If that bar is high, it raises the likelihood that Warren is actually turning away fairly little money, even as the policy allows her to claim some moral high ground.
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Maybe. But the idea here is that instead of lurching repeatedly from scandal to apology, Facebook could make a strong claim to the moral high ground currently being claimed by Apple.
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"Zarif knows that if Trump goes ahead and decertifies Iran, it (Iran) will be on the high ground, and the U.S. will be isolated among the (six powers)," the official said.
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Yanmei Xie of Gavekal Dragonomics, a research firm in Beijing, says China wants to be seen as the defender of the global trade order and so claim the moral high ground.
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Russia has picked up on the West's hypocrisy in the latter's claims to a foreign policy based on the moral high ground in the Middle East and wishes to challenge it.
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There has been a studied response and counter-response between the two countries over trade the past year, as both Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping sought high ground over the spat.
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But while Fallon backed off the critical refrain, hearing comedians take the moral high ground against appalling acts of the administration seems to have become a routinized part of late night.
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Every appointee who fails to live up to that exacting standard damages the government's ability to retain the moral high ground, and with it the chances of reining in corporate wrongdoing.
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If they neither challenge nor retaliate, they keep the moral high ground—but Mr Trump will claim victory, which will be galling, and will quite possibly be emboldened to go further.
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The structure stood at the center of the site, so perhaps the presence of that "high ground" was what drew displaying octopi to that area in the first place, Scheel suggested.
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They got the high ground, and it's very rare in history to see any company successfully take on a company with a scale advantage by actually just copying what they do.
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The polling numbers suggest they have the high ground on the Supreme Court fight even though Democrats in the past have tried to block high-court nominees from outgoing Republican presidents.
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Depending on the path Washington takes, America will either secure its leadership and dominance in space for the foreseeable future or cede the high ground to competitors like China and Russia.
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And prominent gun control groups point out there is an "increasing recognition that gun violence prevention isn't just good policy, but is also the political high ground" among both major parties.
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With Catalonia able to take the moral high ground for now given the fierce crackdown from the government on Sunday, pro-independence sentiment has not been dented and has possibly increased.
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The high ground in Washington always has been measured in millimeters, but it is getting harder and harder to discern, as politics chases the last residue of principle from the process.
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Democrats believe they not only hold the political high ground in the fight, but have also now put the policy hot potato back into the laps of the GOP, aides say.
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They could have turned left or right at this point, but Thai rescuers have been working on the assumption that they took the closest high ground, to the left -- heading south.
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Then it expanded the city limits, taking in 28 West Bank villages on the high ground surrounding the city, and annexed the territory in a move that was never internationally recognized.
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Trump has grabbed the optimism high ground from a Democratic party that apparently can't see past its own rage over Trump's presidency, which, for most Americans, is turning out pretty well.
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But from their position on the high ground, the Democrats may ultimately be able to rally the country behind them to stop what could be the most damaging nomination of all.
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And by framing this as an attempt to help the Saudi people — no matter his frustrations with its unelected royal family — Son is belatedly trying to claim some moral high ground.
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But for some like Kheun Fut, who refused to relocate and instead built a new house on high ground just meters from the reservoir's edge, the cost of leaving was too high.
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"Pakistan had lost the moral high ground on Kashmir due to allegations of (funding the insurgency) in the 1990s," said Anam Zakaria, an analyst and author of a book on the dispute.
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There are certainly a few moments in the new show that feel like Lee might be claiming moral high ground on women and their bodies, but that's another post for another day.
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Clinton may worry that highlighting the issue will cost her votes with whites, but our findings suggest that she can seize the high ground on immigration in ways that are politically advantageous.
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"I don't think there's a loss of any moral high ground in wanting to know what was going to be the process and what was the response from the accused," said Rep.
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"He's given Iran the moral high ground and that is an exceptionally difficult thing to do given the history and reality of Iran's misdeeds at home and in the region," she said.
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Some liberal Democrats view Biden's shoulder grabs and kisses as disqualifying, arguing that the party can't waver in its commitment to protecting women if it's going to maintain the moral high ground.
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From what you've told me, it seems you're ascribing a bit of moral high ground to your own spending habits compared to hers, and that won't get you anywhere productive relationship-wise.
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The directorate issued a recommendation that people living in areas at risk should move immediately to high ground, while disaster management official Augusta Maita said warnings were being broadcast in local media.
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Yet with strong regulation like dismantling Facebook seeming beyond the resolve of congress, and weak regulation potentially protecting Facebook, perhaps it's losing the moral high ground that will be Facebook's real punishment.
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It couldn't be better even if the late Tom Clancy were to have written it, and we have to believe he is smiling down from the tactical high ground of the afterlife.
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But the high ground in his pastures and pens was not very high, and some of his dazed livestock — 650 head of cattle and 11 horses — confronted water up to their bellies.
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One, called "High Ground," about Australia's horrific history of indigenous murder, and starring a mostly aboriginal cast, plus Simon Baker of "The Mentalist," was shooting in Arnhem Land while I was there.
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Anyone who follows a pregnant woman into a doctor's office to confirm that she is there only for the most obvious reasons forfeits the high ground, as well as the parking spot.
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The proposal, which does not need congressional approval, represents the latest clash between powerful health care industries that are engaged in a war for the moral high ground over rising drug prices.
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And it's very important that we not only have the strategic and military advantage, but we have the moral high ground as a country that can be respected, honored and allied with.
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In this case, as in so many others, taking the moral high ground is in the interest of the United States because the war in Yemen is undermining the battle against terrorism.
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"If Amazon executives are so proud of their moral high ground, they should issue memos about which books they are banning instead of keeping sellers and readers in the dark," he said.
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Schubert says that a satellite in geostationary orbit has a view of about one third of the Earth's surface, which would present a huge tactical advantage -- the ultimate "high ground," he says.
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T. G. Taylor, who was General Mattis's spokesman during much of that time, said in an interview that the commander had spoken of America as needing to hold the moral high ground.
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DxE carries out what the animal liberation movement calls "open rescue," a practice dating back decades in which animal rights activists publicly reveal their actions and identities to claim moral high ground.
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The law and order party of Ronald Reagan, however, has proven repeatedly unwilling or unable to exert any control over Trump, seemingly eager to forfeit moral high ground for short term victories.
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As we face a firearm crisis in America today, it's time for hunters to stop hiding behind the Second Amendment and claim the moral high ground as our nation's responsible gun owners.
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Digital piracy advocates often claim the moral high ground when defending the downloading of TV shows and movies that are unreasonably difficult to pay for, like Game of Thrones in Australia for instance.
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Instead, the West should pursue a counterterrorism approach that maintains the moral high ground by being consistent with human rights norms and get smart on Salafi jihadi ideology and the wider Islamist narrative.
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Roseanne Barr's acerbic and biting humor was candid, the Conners didn't try to impress or preach from a moral high ground, and the real-life problems faced by the characters were incredibly relatable.
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After all the back and forth, the turn of events feels way too easy — particularly with the Saviors injured, but not killed, from to the stunt, letting Eugene claim the moral high ground.
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Assuming Ruben Kihuen, a congressman from Nevada accused of sexual harassment, steps down despite his protests, Democrats can credibly claim the moral high ground: they evict credibly accused sexual predators; Republicans welcome them.
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But in the end, the Russian authorities may find, it will be hard to claim the high ground as a defender of freedom in the Middle East while also repressing freedom at home.
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You have to admire the size of an ego that would allow a man not onlyto interrupt an opposing team's live broadcast but also to claim the moral high ground in so doing.
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I have seen enough of politics and enough of the human condition to know that those who most aggressively proclaim their ownership of the moral high ground have the least claim to it.
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They have skillfully seized the high ground, won the battle of ideas with voters who mostly blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown and maintained Democratic unity while Republicans remain divided and defensive.
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You're now telling stories about individual people, whose strengths and weaknesses are starting to harden; you're telling stories about trying to nudge children toward the moral high ground in a seedy, complex world.
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It might believe it holds the power here — though I would argue it does not — but, if so, it seems determined to level the playing field, by utterly vacating the moral high ground.
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Pressed by one interviewer in 2017 on his expression of respect for Russia's president, Trump defended Putin by yielding the moral high ground on which his predecessors staked the claim of American exceptionalism.
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This prison — combined with all those black sites the United States is running around the world — is the reason the country lost any right to the moral high ground a long time ago.
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Amid all the sniping on stage, Booker seized high ground, constantly urging his competitors to focus on the larger challenges to the country and the American community posed by Trump's endlessly divisive politics.
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Dozens of police officers were assigned to the high-profile case, and it was quickly determined that the shot came from Coogan's Bluff, the high ground above the stadium a half-mile away.
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Rather than standing on high ground with the camera crew, Cooper said he wanted to stay out of the way of rescue vehicles and wanted to show viewers how deep the water was.
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Perhaps foremost, the show moves from a war footing to the more interesting question of sustaining a community, and how to impose order in a lawless world without ceding the moral high ground.
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The intraparty split has led to grumbling among some Democrats that the party risks losing its claim to the anti-harassment high ground if the top leaders can't unite around a consistent message.
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Grace Meng has claimed the moral high ground, describing her husband as a clean and dedicated police official, with a humble beginning and an aspiration to see the rule of law in China.
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But when asked if the U.S. had given up its "moral high ground" with Trump's plan to hold a grand military parade, possibly through the streets of Washington, D.C., Pence praised the concept.
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Some have said Democrats are simply too quick to destroy their own, but the party appears intent on holding the high ground as sexual harassment scandals rock politics, entertainment and the news media.
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" Pitchfork's review echoes this sentiment when referring to "Castle on the Hill," observing how Sheeran "uses humblebraggadocio and innocence to shore up his moral high ground over shallow girls and unfair beauty standards.
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These attacks are crimes, but such crimes happen in war regardless of which side holds the moral high ground, which side imposes more restrictions on its soldiers, or which side possesses military superiority.
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Smugly looking down from a moral high ground—and secure in the knowledge that we don't share their character flaw—we often dismiss those who are obsessed with the doings of others as shallow.
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In other words, Feinstein has given away the moral high ground and has put every Senate Democrat in a position of endorsing the least popular option for dealing with families crossing the border illegally.
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"Proactively taking action against climate change will improve China's international image and allow it to occupy the moral high ground," Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy, told Reuters.
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Transform it into a business that's knocking out more shows across more genres all in the name of feeding the hungry corporate content gods, and it runs the risk of losing that high ground.
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"In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero tolerance standard," Ramsey said in a statement to the Kansas City Star.
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Smugly looking down from a moral high ground — and secure in the knowledge that we don't share their character flaw — we often dismiss those who are obsessed with the doings of others as shallow.
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Some Democrats are frustrated with their party's leadership for the lack of action, which comes at a moment when the party has sought to take the moral high ground over sexual misconduct towards women.
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Some Republican pundits are treating the Democrats newfound hardline position against sexual harassment as a political ploy: Democrats are going to dump Franken now in order to seize the moral high ground on Moore.
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Then she said nothing would change unless there was a law establishing public financing of elections and said the Democrats risked losing the moral high ground unless they stopped accepting money from these industries.
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The people of Greece were not free of venal corruptions any more than Latin America was free of brutal dictatorships, but it was easier to appeal to America's preference for the moral high ground.
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In April 1945, his infantry regiment had pushed deep into Germany and was crossing a river when it ran into tough resistance: 1,800 men from an SS Panzer division, dug in on high ground.
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One recent poll showed Mr. Flake with an 18 percent approval rating, and a survey in August by Arizona High Ground, Mr. Coughlin's firm, found Mr. Flake trailing both Ms. Ward and Ms. Sinema.
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By not speaking directly to the moral dimensions of abortion, the Democratic Party undermines itself on this issue as well as the moral high ground they rightfully deserve on a number of other issues.
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"Once one religious viewpoint has imposed itself on public grounds to the exclusion of others, we have nothing but the ethical and constitutional high ground," the temple's co-founder, Lucien Greaves, said on Monday.
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The more people use the database, the less likely it is that disputes arise — so the Lanham Act rewards registrants by giving them the legal high ground should they ever end up in court.
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Since Mr. Trump's election in November, senior Chinese officials and leaders have been taking the high ground on the issue by urging all countries, including the United States, to abide by their climate commitments.
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"While Pompeo attacks the Chinese Communist Party and proudly claims the moral high ground, he forgets about the NSA's notorious PRISM surveillance program and the wiretapping of America's closest allies," the Chinese diplomat added.
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But young people are already leaving the church because they see it as out of touch; the church can't fulfill its purpose as a moral guide when it has lost the moral high ground.
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That's because unlike Trump, Biden is a career politician who simply can't afford to lose any moral high ground if he hopes to make a strong alternative case for himself against Trump in 2020.
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Additionally, when Dany finally makes it to Westeros and brings her newly acquired Dothraki horde with her, she'll lose the moral high ground that her anti-slave crusade currently gives her in the east.
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They know it will be hard, that money must be raised, that internal tensions must be resolved, that passions must be sustained, and that Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill hold the high ground.
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By antagonizing underage survivors of a national tragedy, the pro-Trump media abandoned its usual play for the moral high ground and made an uncharacteristic miscalculation: It chose a popular, deeply sympathetic, nonpolarizing political enemy.
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October 5, 2003: 'A coherent strategy to get us back on the high ground' Blair says things are tough on the ground and laments the failure to find more evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
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After three days of patrols, isolated firefights with an elusive enemy, and multiple nights of American bombardment, another unit in 33nd Battalion, Fox Company, received the order to take some high ground on Mutter's Ridge.
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But when he became a black athlete who embarrassed Hitler on his own turf, Owens was lauded as an American hero who helped the country gain the moral high ground as World War II neared.
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But within a few days progress stalled, when a counter-attack by no more than 250 IS fighters resulted in the loss of the village of al-Nasr and the high ground it sits on.
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The Democratic Party claims the moral high ground when it comes to voter suppression and election rigging, but somehow these problems were no longer issues to the Clinton campaign as we marched through the primaries.
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The National Weather Service warned that the storm represented a "worst case scenario" for the panhandle, and state, local and federal officials warned residents who had not already evacuated to seek shelter on high ground.
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But I also recognize that, just as denying climate change will not make the problem go away, doing nothing more than launching attacks from the perceived moral high ground will not help find a solution.
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The government has said 179 soldiers died in the battle, 81 went missing and 110 were captured, and Ms. Syroyid says Ukraine is on the moral high ground today in stalling on the political demands.
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You'd need to eat hundreds, if not thousands, of apple seeds for it to be a real problem, but it is an opportunity for us core avoiders to regain some of the moral high ground.
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That position has made some in China uncomfortable, including foreign policy experts who have privately criticized the government's position, saying that China has ceded the moral high ground in its rivalry with the United States.
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"When we stood up and voiced our concerns about Bill Clinton taking advantage of a young intern and allegedly abusing all of those women, we were standing on the moral high ground," Ms. Day said.
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The leaked papers state that Britain will take a "moral high ground" by offering EU migrants the right to continue living in the UK and continue accessing the NHS and claiming benefits, the report said.
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So faced with a trade-off between an effective and electable progressive legislator versus the symbolism of taking the high ground, the Democrats in the Senate have chosen to throw Mr. Franken under the bus.
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The predominantly white and male guardianship of the literary and intellectual high ground tended to view the essential American story as a solo confrontation with the wilderness, not a love triangle or intimate domestic saga.
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Yet whatever claims to the moral high ground industry figures might like to make aren't helped by this weekend's release of "Death Wish," a remake of the 1974 revenge fantasy, right before its biggest night.
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"Ineffective, war crime, against our values, moral high ground, et cetera," Donald J. Guter, a retired rear admiral and the dean of the South Texas College of Law, said in explaining objections to brutal treatment.
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A Bloomberg-Obama ticket would seize the high ground on the economic issue and remind voters that Democrats bring prosperity in a society that is more socially just with a politics that brings people together.
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While there may have been a tinge of irony to segregated America claiming the high ground on matters of racial supremacy, the success of 'The Brown Bomber' was seen as a huge embarrassment in Nazi Germany.
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At Sacred Stone, about 70 veterans representing two veterans group, both originating from a highly publicized December campaign to bring vets to support the Natives, were building arctic shelters and a new kitchen on high ground.
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The team managed to take the point back though, holding the high ground and taking it to 99 percent before losing it back to Misfits, which won the next couple team fights and took round one.
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But the bottom line is that the GOP wants to support tax cuts without giving up some level of the moral high ground it believes it owns when it comes to opposing the exploding national debt.
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Medicare is one of the most brilliant and popular government programs ever created, and Sanders has the moral and political high ground when he champions extending Medicare to all Americans and protecting Medicaid from GOP attacks.
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But because Partner and Cellcom have towers just across the border in Israel, their 3G and 4G signals can be reached from parts of the territory that are closer to the frontier or on high ground.
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The Democratic candidate is for partial-birth abortion in a state that is highly Christian and Catholic so there is no moral high ground here between the two candidates," Stephen Moore said Monday on CNN's "AC85033.
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The archaeological highlight is a citadel, on high ground overlooking the river, and while that will stay above the water, scientists worry that over time its limestone base, which is porous, will erode and ultimately collapse.
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But, if the cost is sacrificing any sort of moral high ground when it comes to acceptable behavior in politics (and life), the prospect of holding a single Senate seat seems like a very poor tradeoff.
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A land swap would satisfy Georgians, he said, but Azerbaijan has refused a similar arrangement in the past, citing the military strategic importance of the site, which rests on high ground that dominates the surrounding area.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe from your mobile device: On iPhone or iPad | On Android via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher For decades, college liberals have claimed the moral high ground when it comes to freedom of speech.
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In 1718, the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville found a bit of high ground 100 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans where today Jackson Square sits.
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It's that pointing that out in the same breath as offering condolences and essentially saying that they had it coming eschews any moral or ethical high ground, let alone moment of humanity, this might have engendered.
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He told "Power Lunch " there have been times when the administration had the high ground, like when Spicer denied that the bust of Martin Luther King was removed from the Oval Office, contrary to a reporter's tweet.
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Just this Wednesday, New Orleans saw 8 to 10 inches of rainfall in a span of just a few hours, transforming some of our high ground arteries for traffic into rivers with currents in their own right.
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And Reverend Barber, the North Carolina NAACP leader, did what Reverend Barber does: Use scripture to take the moral high ground for the most expansive liberal views—and get the hall (and TV audience) rocking in response.
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READ: Clinton's 'me' versus Sanders' 'us' It is also true that differences of opinion and the jabs from candidates and their staffs are part and parcel of presidential contests, even while each side claims the high ground.
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In direct contrast, the prime minister has tried to take the moral high ground by making only vague accusations about the role of the wife of his younger brother and hinting the dispute is actually about money.
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Maxine Waters, rank-and-file members are following suit, saying her approach puts Democrats in an unsettling position, as members of her party worry about ceding the moral high ground -- which they consider their turf -- to Republicans.
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He is an advocacy fellow with High Ground Veterans Advocacy, a research assistant at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and a graduate student at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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Further, "China is actively pursuing a plan to use space as the ultimate 'high ground' to dominate the global economy and transform economic, military, and political power in its image" — an authoritarian image anathema to American values.
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Bloomberg reported on Monday that Telkom has identified 6,250 positions that the company wants to eliminate by July from a total workforce of 13,895, according to a plan known as Project High Ground outlined in a document.
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Stephen Moore, a former economic aide to President Trump who is not related to Roy Moore, argued last week on CNN that there's "no moral high ground" between the two candidates because of Jones's stance on abortion.
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The "pro-life" movement cannot claim the moral high ground on protecting life until they prove they're interested in protecting the lives of all people, not just the unborn—and, really, only the unborn threatened by abortion.
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Determined to get Vienna back on the moral high ground, a licentious duke (Alexander Arsentyev) temporarily cedes power to his chilly scold of a deputy, Angelo, who proceeds to enforce laws that have lain dormant for years.
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Democrats appear determined to grab the moral high ground in an environment in which they hope sexual harassment becomes a wedge issue in the 2018 midterm elections — even if it costs them popular colleagues and political icons.
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As things got worse, we had to come up with more cunning plans: demolishing walls to create quicker escape vectors, grappling onto high ground to up our shot percentages, keeping the medic well protected in the back.
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"When you have the high ground, the people trying to get to you are disadvantaged," said Ronal Serpas, the former police chief in New Orleans and Nashville who is a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.
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It's an ingenious way to try to get to the high ground, where they can assess the risk and apply pressure in a timely way so it comes out the way they want it to come out.
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Instead of continuing to hold out, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer decided to test Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell's pledge for even-handed floor debate of an issue on which Democrats hold the high ground in public opinion.
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To their critics in Democratic politics, it was something else: evidence that they were running their own cynical machine, doing more or less the same thing that Democrats had done forever while seizing the moral high ground.
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While in this room inspired by the lava-filled place where Darth Vader was born, you can take the high ground (the top bunk) and sleep well knowing that you have a place on the Dark Side.
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Still, even while the GOP has traditionally held the optical high ground politically when it comes to military affairs, it could overreach in this case, said other longtime observers of congressional budget battles centered on the military.
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The final decision had been made two weeks earlier, spurred by a combination of declining admissions — down by 35% just this year, according to High Ground Memphis — increasing real estate debt, and the school's small endowment fund.
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Similar drives against corruption or slavery also drove British colonial expansion in Africa and were open to the same accusation: that the British were claiming the moral high ground as a way of pursuing their own self-interest.
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These questions pop up, like bright, distracting buoys spotted from the illusion of high ground; if Klebold had failings (and what parent does not?), none of them would begin to explain the terrible turn of her son's life.
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Too often in the political conversation about abortion, even supportive politicians give away the moral high ground by rhetorically defending abortions only in cases of rape or incest, or by supporting some restrictions such as mandatory waiting periods.
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And check out this mashup of his profane pronouncements, made publicly and repeatedly and for the cameras for months as he tried to persuade voters that HE was the moral defender of right, standing on the high ground.
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But that didn&apost CNN&aposs so-called chief White House correspondent, the king of lies, the king of fake news, Jimmy Acosta, from trying to self- righteously seize the moral high ground at today&aposs press briefing.
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Brulle said he's watching to see if larger foundations follow suit, paving a rough road ahead for the oil-and-gas industry, which he thinks has claimed the moral high ground because it provides energy for the country.
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The contradiction of Democrats holding their tongues on Franken -- particularly as the allegations mounted -- while condemning Republicans for failing to push Moore out of the Alabama race gave the GOP a foothold in the moral high ground argument.
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Forced-birth extremists—I refuse to dignify a movement that makes a mound of women's bodies and calls it the moral high ground with the moniker "pro-life"—are not yet brave enough to make their position clear.
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When Sanders make these points, and says that drug prices and insurance premiums are too high and the positions of Cruz and Republicans will make them higher, he will be on the high ground of policy and politics.
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Hee Yun Chung from California summarizes nicely what many said in other ways: Getting rid of Dreamers would not only damage America's moral high ground in the world, but it would adversely impact the economy and create misery.
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It is a strange turn of events that Mr. Guzmán, a serial prison escapee who stands accused of killing thousands during Mexico's bloody drug wars, has claimed the moral high ground as a critic of the penal system.
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MARKET NEWS * The dollar and yen held the safe-haven high ground on Tuesday, with investors on edge ahead of a looming tariff deadline, the UK election and upcoming central bank meetings in Europe and the United States.
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"We believe that we hold the high ground with regard to the dispute with Apple, and we have initiated new actions to protect the well-established value of our technologies," Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said in a statement.
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Laquanta Edwards holds her 1 year old daughter, Ladaja (R), and 9-month-old son, LaDarius, after they arrived to high ground by boat due to floods caused by Tropical Storm Harvey along Tidwell Road in east Houston.
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Despite poor implementation and widespread ill-effects linked to the currency reform, the Prime Minister is still able to enter the election race on a moral high ground because he branded demonetization as an anti-corruption measure, he continued.
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The pro-Trump media's leaders, publications, and followers claim the moral high ground with their denouncements of political violence and the alt-right on one hand, while pandering to the most unseemly corners of the internet on the other.
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Syrian media and Arab television channels broadcasting from the slopes of Palmyra's medieval citadel, one of the last areas of high ground seized by the army on Friday, said troops had advanced inside Palmyra and had taken several neighborhoods.
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The men of The Bachelorette seek a moral high ground by declaring it all a necessary part of "protecting Becca," but as in most homosocial triangles, these fights are often about the men's big egos clashing against each other.
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If a majority of these citizens oppose large-scale immigration (as is the case in several European countries), the government cannot simply ignore their wishes, even if it thinks it would take the moral high ground by doing so.
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" He went on to add, "We're talking now about putting what we call NATO air support, down at the brigade level, so when they are in contact, the high ground is now going to be owned by the Afghans.
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After this election cycle, with polarization at all time highs, one candidate threatening to jail the other if elected, and an increasing likelihood that the losing side will contest the election results, what moral high ground can we claim?
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The British government risks losing "trust and the moral high ground" around the world if it goes ahead with plans to privatize the 150-year-old UK Land Registry, experts in the field have said.
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However, by sinking to their level she has lost any moral high ground she could once claim, and, in my opinion, the line between "counter-trolling" and actual racist sentiments is so blurry it might as well be nonexistent.
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Democrats are seeking the moral high ground in the wake of sexual misconduct accusations against numerous public figures, including Republican Roy Moore of Alabama, who is running for the Senate, and Democratic Representative John Conyers, who resigned on Tuesday.
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Though Turkish forces, together with fighters of the Free Syrian Army, captured high ground and three villages near Afrin on Monday, military analysts said the campaign was dependent on Russia's agreement to open up the airspace to Turkish jets.
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"Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high ground of space, it's going to be a whole different ballgame," Trump said at a White House ceremony marking the command's establishment.
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Still, by passing it off entirely, he further ceded the narrative — and the high ground -- to the Democrats, who can and likely will make hay of his ignoring such a vast and substantial issue on such a large stage.
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In this game, you'll be at the biggest advantage if you're on the high ground with something to hide behind/shield yourself with — you'll be able to see enemies creeping up on you and you'll have some protection when they arrive.
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Able to digitally distribute games to consumers before those same channels opened up through app stores and desktop computers, console platforms held the high ground for years, the huge corporations behind them setting the terms for smaller companies who wanted in.
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U.S. Army Major Jon-Paul Depreo, operations officer for the international coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and neighboring Syria, said at the weekend the insurgents were determined not to lose Nasr because of its strategic position on high ground.
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Moral (and economic) high ground Part of the image the British built up for themselves under the Empire was certainly that of a country which rose above the low moral standards they thought they saw in other parts of the world.
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"Proactively taking action against climate change will improve China's international image and allow it to occupy the moral high ground," Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and a senior Chinese climate talks negotiator, told Reuters.
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"That was a big moment for me ... and probably something I'll always remember and he really took the high ground when he had the opportunity to go very, very low, and I'm proud of him for doing that," Trump said.
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Syria's SANA news agency said that the army and an allied militia took more high ground overlooking the city, while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported advances by the army amid what it said were heavy clashes.
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But given the shocking human rights violations that are currently being perpetrated every single day on U.S. soil (another person died in Customs and Border Protection custody yesterday), it's laughable to believe that Thiel has any moral high ground here.
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Still, the unusual confluence of factors is rattling nerves along the "sliver by the river," a swath of relatively high ground along the Mississippi that's less likely to flood in typical rain and hurricane storm surge events than other areas.
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During the same match on the earlier map Numbani, Libero assisted with yet another aggressive and inventive offensive strategy, utilizing Mei's Ice Wall to give the team an advantageous boost to take the high ground above the payload capture point.
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There's a certain power or self-produced status that comes from being a quote good guy and playing by the rules and doing the right thing that gives you the assumed moral high ground to then be kind of a prick.
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At the same time, the struggle against Negan plays into the moral issues the show has raised -- specifically, whether it's possible for even the ostensible good guys to occupy the high ground in the face of such an utterly lawless landscape.
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Elon Musk and Tesla are scrambling to regain the moral high ground after a detailed and highly critical report this week alleged the company used subcontractors who were paid as little as $5 per hour to build a paint shop.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least two people were injured and some churches and homes damaged after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia, although residents who had fled to high ground fearing a tsunami had started returning, the disaster agency said on Friday.
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The allegations against him underscore a generational divide within the Democratic Party and the tricky politics of the "Me Too" era, as Democrats seek to maintain the moral high ground against Trump, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct.
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"Proactively taking action against climate change will improve China's international image and allow it to occupy the moral high ground," Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and a senior Chinese climate talks negotiator, told Reuters.
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It's easy to feel good about yourself when you're patting yourself on the back for your inability to never fail to take the moral high ground, which everyone who agrees with you reinforces and enables, one Facebook "like" at a time.
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Israelis could not decide whether the soldiers were virtuous pillars of forbearance and strength — "It's soldiers like this that give Israel the moral high-ground," Peter Lerner, a retired army spokesman, declared — or an embarrassing advertisement of national paralysis and vulnerability.
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"Pelosi's mealymouthed-ness on this issue may well come back to haunt Democrats if they want to take any kind of moral high ground amid the cascade of sexual-harassment complaints against men in power," writes New York Magazine's Benjamin Hart.
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The strong earthquake that sent panicked Alaskans, fearing a tsunami, to high ground early Tuesday is a reminder that, at least around the Pacific Rim, the biggest danger from quakes often comes not from the land but from the sea.
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"Studying that incident shows you how devastating someone who has the high ground can be with weapons like that," said Ed Davis, the Boston police commissioner from 2006 to 2013, who was taught details of the Whitman shooting as a recruit.
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Whether the Trump administration's decertification unravels the deal quickly or slowly, unjustified unilateral American action will give the Iranians the moral high ground, allowing them to rightly say that it was the United States, not them, who killed the deal.
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Democrats nationally have sought to capture the high ground on the question of gerrymandering in recent years, as Republican-controlled legislatures drew map after map in the last decade that preserved their holds on power even when voters spurned them.
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Party strategists fear that Democrats might sacrifice the moral and political high ground by appearing too eager, and some leaders worry that an impeachment drumbeat would drown out Democrats' message to voters on kitchen-table issues like health care and taxes.
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To the Editor: Although I agree with Gerard Alexander's contention that no political party has automatic claim to intelligence and moral high ground, and that smugness is no way to win elections, it takes more than political differences to divide society.
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In the past 15 months, Ryan has transformed from a man who once held a moral high ground over Trump, denouncing his comments as "racist" and "unacceptable," to one who has excused Trump's behavior as that of a political neophyte's.
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And that doesn't feel like too much of a problem, until Wine Country seeks to take the moral high ground with a bit about eye-rolling at millennials for being overly politically correct that feels straight out of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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"When they go low, we go high" as a moral imperative makes me weary — the other side has been going low, and lower still, for decades, and the moral high ground has begun to feel like a staircase in an Escher drawing.
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The patch design depicts a classic battle between good and evil and represents... The NROL-47 launch was scrubbed twice: once on January 10th because of high ground winds, and again on January 11th because of an issue with a ground system valve.
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READ: GOP congressman resigns after asking female staffers to be a surrogate for his child "We have all the high ground but no power," said one former Franken aide who said he was "extremely proud" of all the work he did with Franken.
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Lack of trust Preston: As we (talk) about Washington right now, and the dysfunction between Democrats and Republicans, do you think -- and I don't think this is exclusive to either party -- that perhaps people aren't taking the moral high ground on issues?
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That politicians in a part of the UK today think they are taking the moral high ground by denying abortions to women carrying pregnancies where the baby has no chance of survival, or where a woman has been raped, is utterly warped.
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Five days of fighting, beating off repeated German counterattacks, left the 2900th in control of the high ground all along the Mount Belvedere massif, as well as neighboring Riva Ridge — vital objectives that division planners thought might take two weeks to secure.
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Hong Kong's weather observatory said in the early hours that winds occasionally reached storm force in the southern part of the territory and hurricane force on high ground on Lantau Island to the west of the city where the airport is situated.
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"It's pretty rare to start with a low bar and work your way up at this stage ..." Delegations from rich countries with some moral high-ground -- Germany, New Zealand and Canada, among them -- are not doing enough to rally support, observers said.
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Haulier Pacific National, Glencore and emergency services are also assessing a stranded 80-wagon train carrying zinc and lead concentrate, and copper metal, that was moved to high ground ahead of the floods but found inundated in an aerial survey last week.
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In those cases, ICC prosecutors maintained the moral high ground because their inability to present sufficient evidence was widely seen to be a result of a coordinated plan by Kenyan officials to intimidate witnesses — but the disappointing end result is the same.
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An admirable impulse to own the moral high ground, never "stoop to the enemy's level" and exercise all diplomatic efforts before, during and after a war has taken hold of all levels of the US government, but the results are often counterproductive.
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It was a remarkable event as Trump, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer repeatedly sought the political and rhetorical high ground, feuded over what they agreed on (and what they didn't) and barely avoided the whole thing ending in a flurry of name-calling.
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I think it is fair in this sense: I think that many of them who have essentially traded the moral high ground for access have stepped down from their lofty pulpit, their lofty positions, and have therefore opened themselves up to criticism.
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Call of Duty: World at War casts you as a Russian infantryman and, in one of its climactic levels, wherein you machine-gun a squad of Nazi soldiers trying to escape into a train station, encourages you to consider your moral high ground.
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The authors are clear and convincing that war from the "high ground" of space is exponentially more dangerous than any warfare the human race has engaged in thus far, capable of efficiently delivering nuclear bombs, with their power to annihilate the entire planet.
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In destroying that consensus on the importance of the rule of law and the fight against corruption, the Trump administration has also delivered a significant blow to any ability of the United States government to hold the moral high ground on these issues.
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When the words that Churchill had been longing to hear from the United States finally came, they were spoken not by Roosevelt but by his rumpled, sickly-looking personal adviser, Harry Hopkins, who met Churchill on his own high ground of language.
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Trump's nostalgic focus on reviving 20th century industrial behemoths that now employ only a fraction as many Americans as they once did -- from steel to coal to construction -- provides Democrats an opportunity to claim the high ground of nurturing the economy's future.
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By not thinking carefully about the consequences, we abandoned any moral high ground and created a situation in which we may soon be unsure that we control our own minds — as individuals or in aggregate as human beings on this fragile globe.
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This week, the startup's CEO stepped down and was replaced by a Big Tobacco exec, a truly fitting development for a company that has long tried to maintain a moral high ground based on the alternative facts of the reality at hand.
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"Shouldn't you break that NDA so that you have the moral authority and the high ground against somebody like Trump, who hides behind the lack of transparency to justify everything that he's doing?" she asked Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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HONG KONG — A herd of endangered rhinos fleeing the deadly floods sweeping northern India now faces another threat, wildlife officials said on Monday: Poachers are stalking the animals in the few areas of high ground to which they have managed to escape.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel — whose decision to take the moral high ground and maintain an open-door policy to refugees has become increasingly unpopular among some groups — saw a waning of support in those three states for her party, the Christian Democrats (CDU).
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"We have to decide what hills we are taking as the high ground," said Armstrong, using a very old military reference (no drone warfare allowed!), according to many in attendance, after a question about the strategic direction of the Silicon Valley internet company.
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With each abnormal, unbecoming, or dishonorable act, President Trump makes it harder for his appointees to defend him, harder for traditional Republicans to maintain their uneasy power alliance with him, and easier for Democrats to take the moral high ground and secure political advantage.
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"[Netflix] got the high ground [online], and it's very rare in history to see any company successfully take on a company with a scale advantage by actually just copying what they do," Wei said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
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I would counter to you that you may have seen that clearly the moral high ground was on Captain America's side, [but] I know for a fact that a great deal of the audience felt like Tony was on the right side of the thing.
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While none of the Liars live on the moral high ground — I mean, they did bury a body after a hit and run rather than reporting the accident to the cops — it sounds like Aria might be hiding something from even her closest friends.
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And as trade war tensions mount, the people I spoke to in rural Yunnan seemed sympathetic to the narrative out of Beijing: The United States is an aggressor brandishing both tanks and tariffs, while China and its peaceful rise occupy the moral high ground.
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Democrats are united as the patriot party, seizing the high ground and a powerful advantage throughout the nation, as the free world watched in horror when a Republican president appeared weak and submissive in the presence of a Russian dictator who is attacking our country.
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"I've spent a great deal of time in the Bahamas and am really worried about what the storm surge and waves will do to my friends on the out-islands, places where there is no high ground when facing a storm like this," she said.
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The Dhurves, a family of four that lives in a plastic-roofed shelter squeezed between an overpass and a set of railroad tracks, raced to a highway median — high ground — where they spent the night watching their home get swamped for the umpteenth time.
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The fact that Newt Gingrich was having an affair the whole time he was busy trying to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about having an affair called into question whether Mr. Gingrich was motivated by his dedication to the moral high ground or — you think?
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Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called on Israel "to take the high ground and declare a cessation of settlement activities, including East Jerusalem, so we can give the peace process the chance it deserves by the resumption of meaningful negotiations".
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While Canada may occupy the moral high ground abroad, we routinely fail to honor and uphold the rights and dignity of First Nations (the indigenous people), many of whom endure horrific levels of violence and lack access to clean water or adequate health care.
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Pro-Russian politicians in France, Germany, Hungary and Italy can quite reasonably argue they are only saying the same things as the President of the United States: NATO is obsolete; isolating Russia is a mistake; the West has no real claim to the moral high ground.
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But then when you want to stand on this moral high ground and one of your own, not a Conservative, not a Republican, not at all a right person but one of your own says something that&aposs just gross, so juvenile and stupid and gross.
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Until recently, residents' only protection against this often lethal water channel were the construction of hundreds of crude hand-carved drainage canals snaking from Kibera's high ground to the marshy, undeveloped basin of the Nairobi River and other feeble measures, such as blocking floodwater with trash.
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He brought Gordon Murray on board, the man behind McLaren road cars, with the following brief: the vehicle has to have high ground clearance and generous approach and departure angles; its layout has to be configurable for multiple uses; and the cab has to fit three people.
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Hispanic conservatives who spoke to BuzzFeed News this week continually made the argument that their moral and political high ground would be wiped away if Trump discards the Republican refrain that they support certain policies because of the rule of law by choosing to pardon Arpaio.
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Hispanic conservatives who spoke to BuzzFeed News this week continually made the argument that their moral and political high ground would be wiped away if Trump, by choosing to pardon Arpaio, discards the Republican refrain that they support certain policies because of the rule of law.
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But here we also have at least seven women whom Franken reportedly took advantage of when he was in various positions of power, and we have a party trying to take some moral high ground at a time when half the country seems to lack souls.
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Exclusive: Turkish President vows revenge Turks have been through this before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who supported the coup in Egypt by praising the generals for "restoring the democracy" in the country, should stop pretending that he is keeping to the moral high ground.
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China and the Philippines are trying to find a way to break the ice after a verdict by an arbitral court in The Hague in July invalidated China's claims to most of the South China Sea and gave Manila the legal high ground in the dispute.
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Before we now praise infamous men for finally finding some moral high ground (it's pretty low ground, actually) on which to make their last stand, we should recognize that their late renunciations of the billionaire bigot come in the wake of Team Trump's sinking in the polls.
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"When we look at this area -- being a major city park -- there are some areas of high ground," Manley said, alluding to the Las Vegas gunman's sniper nest in a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, hundreds of yards from the outdoor concert.
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While few of them were perfect -- and some like Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton failed in major ways -- they all believed in the basic idea that part of their job (and a large part of it) was to lead the country to the moral high ground.
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"You could easily see the march coming down the street they were walking, and saw an opportunity with some high-perched positions, a couple of buildings in the pathway of the marchers, and decided to take the high ground and start shooting right away," Chief Brown said.
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It's easy to understand why this pre- and post-2004 distinction is appealing on the surface: it allows voters (and fans) to have it both ways, to justify votes for the undeniable greatness of Bonds and Clemens while still clinging to the moral high ground over PEDs.
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On Saturday, Smith acknowledged concocting a plan to tamper with a cricket ball during a series in South Africa, in an attempt to gain an unfair and illegal advantage, a revelation that has stunned a sport that has never been reluctant to seize the moral high ground.
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They believe they are making sound real estate decisions by buying land on high ground that will appreciate in value, while at the same time developing a Plan B. "We are blatantly facing a catastrophe, and all we're doing is getting rid of straws," Mr. Dalski said.
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And since our European allies as well as Russia and China have indicated that they will not follow us in backing out of the Iran deal or reimposing sanctions, Iran would have all the moral high ground and money it needs, and the U.S. would be isolated.
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Without uttering a word to students at the University of California, Berkeley, Ann Coulter on Wednesday made herself the latest cause célèbre in the rapidly escalating effort by conservatives to fight liberals on what was once the left's moral high ground over free speech on campus.
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A senior administration official told CNN's Barbara Starr that the decision on what to do with the Saudis may be the "the most consequential" of Trump's presidency, since it will dictate whether US military leaders and diplomats can maintain a moral high ground on human rights.
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A battle for leverage In effect, Ford and the Senate Republicans are engaged in a battle for leverage and the moral high ground, a drama that encapsulates many of the undercurrents of power and gender politics that have rocked the United States during the Trump administration.
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"There's no public awareness campaign, Trump hasn't spoken about it, and the VA's leader hasn't made it a priority," says High Ground Veterans Advocacy's Goldsmith, who attempted to die by suicide while in the Army, leading the service to give him a less-than-honorable discharge.
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It's easier to imagine a deterioration of Sino-US relations than an improvement as these countries of dramatically different cultural and ideological systems – and increasingly similar ambitions -- compete for the high ground, while lacking the set of negotiated ground rules that came to stabilize the Cold War years.
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The key difference between Martinez's current donnybrook with The Donald and her squabbles with state Republicans, is that this one offers a whiff of the moral high ground: In the face of the brash Manhattanite, Martinez is positioned to assert herself as the indefatigable defender of compassionate conservatism.
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While they might not be able to force Republicans to relent, Democrats believe they have the political high ground and will ultimately prevail, either with a confirmation hearing and a vote on a nominee, or a November election victory that gives them the Senate and the White House.
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He has the great leadership skills, and the very popular high ground on leading issues, to carry the fight to the country to end the abuses of congressional Republicans during the Trump presidency, as Alabama voters ended the seamy saga of Roy Moore's ill-fated campaign for the Senate.
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But as much as she feels rightly victimized by his duplicity, Chuck doesn't let her perch on the moral high ground: Her job at Axe Capital is to "prop up" a criminal organization, to use the tools of psychology to empower traders to maximize profits off illegal information.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat seeking to extend mayoral control of New York City's schools in the face of a Republican-controlled State Senate that appears intent on thwarting him, reached on Thursday for one of his default political strategies: When outgunned, claim the moral high ground.
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You would gain the moral high ground if you came out powerfully and made absolutely clear that you condemn all the haters who claim to support you — many disgusting anti-Semites and racists — who have attacked journalists and others who have criticized you, using racial and ethnic slurs.
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To the Editor: As much as I, a progressive Democrat, love Al Franken, I agree with Michelle Goldberg that "Franken Should Go." This is a critical moment in politics in which the Democratic Party must seize the moral high ground and adopt a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual assault.
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Indeed, it would give the Trump administration the moral high ground with everyone, which will help to keep the Chinese and Russians behind sanctions and containment and deprive them of excuses that the North's drive for nuclear weapons is the natural response to "threats" from the United States.
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Trump realized the power of being anti-PC somewhere between his guest appearances on the Howard Stern radio show and his run for the presidency: no matter what he said or did, he could take the high ground, or at least earn credit, for not being politically correct.
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Fluid in its structure and aqueous in its themes, the novel vividly evokes the teeming, sweltering city, and a story set in the future reflects Bangkok's vulnerability to rising sea levels: snakes moving to high ground turn out to be a harbinger, ignored by locals, of catastrophic floods.
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Armed with an arsenal of rifles modified with an aftermarket product that turns semi-automatic weapons into fully-automatic weapons of mass destruction, the killer claimed the high ground, and systematically mowed down innocents from his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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