losing ground

One sign that al Qaeda fears losing ground to the upstarts are the gestures of reconciliation it has made toward ISIS.

The GOP is losing ground with the working class during an era when the working class is expanding.

And those who do not join this new movement of society find themselves gradually losing ground.

Give him credit: Twenty or so years ago, the NRA was losing ground.

It seemed the story of the soccer mom turned drug dealer, which helped put Showtime on the map, was slowly losing ground.

A purely passive defence is not possible for us; it implies losing ground by degrees—and we have not a yard to lose.

In fact, he could not but observe that since the fatal letter he appeared to be rather losing ground in his old character.

By the time the sun went down it could be seen that the war ship was losing ground.

That means losing ground at an increasing rate to the obscenity crawling over our planet.

But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.