There was also a third position, taking the middle ground.
I don't want to take ground and then give it back.
They would have to come up, ready to take the solid ground.
She had yet to learn the difference between taking ground and holding it.
She decided to return to her original plan, to take the high ground, and the advantage.
Their position seems to be that "they are taking the moral high ground".
She'd expected him to take higher ground, but instead, he'd gone for lower, using the shelter cut from the earth by the water long ago.
Now the brigade had to take the high ground on the left of the road.
He decided to take the high ground and have you resign.
Someone had beaten us here, despite my efforts to be the first and take the high ground.
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