1.
If a person or organization has the ~ in an argument or dispute, that person or organization has an advantage. (JOURNALISM)
The President must seek to regain the ~ in the political debate...
N-SING: the N, oft the adj N
2.
If you say that someone has taken the moral ~, you mean that they consider that their policies and actions are morally superior to the policies and actions of their rivals.
The Republicans took the moral ~ with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority...
PHRASE: PHR after v