ascendance

[ US /əˈsɛndəns/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɛndəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
    her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
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  • The plot itself is pretty good - the vampires are still unused to their sudden ascendance and have ambiguous feelings about it, embodied in the two brothers, one a grunt in the human-hunting army who seems content with the way humans are treated, the other a haematologist who tolerates the situation as a temporary measure but has many regrets. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Results 1 The onset constituent ratio and fatality rate of liver cirrhosis reposefully descend, but the in-patient quantity take on ascendance trend.
  • It looks like something released in 1975, covered in the imagery bands once used to telegraph their ascendance to the rock aristocracy and send out the message: we are rich, we are famous, we've swapped the dank air of Aylesbury Friars for the kind of places people like you will only ever get to see when the Bounty hunters go searching for paradise in the ad breaks during World of Sport. Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown - review
  • But right now the only thing that will bring the Douthat faction into ascendance is the consistent defeat of the sort of politics and policies that Palin has embraced and may embrace. You A Wanksta And You Need To Stop Frontin | ATTACKERMAN
  • Gabe Lowy, who as a consumer-products analyst in the 1990s was perhaps the chief prophet of private-label ascendance then and is now a technology analyst with Noble Financial, believes private-label growth fizzled before for several reasons, including a relatively quick economic turnaround and more innovation by manufacturers. Advertising Age - Homepage
  • It reminds me somewhat of Serge Lutens Douce Amère, in which the bitter herbs of absinthe and tagetes tamp the sweetness of the white flowers down, and they are locked in eternal struggle, neither one gaining ascendance. Archive 2008-12-01
  • While Tom did pass the 520 plan, a popular bill for Eastsiders, his conservative vote against the Democrats’ budget revealed that he’s a bit of a finger-in-the-wind guy (he switched parties from GOP to Democrat when the Democrats were in ascendance in 2006.) Forget About the Tea Party: State GOP Counting on Moderate Candidates « PubliCola
  • But the ascendance of market rhetoric in America and Britain was accompanied by the assertion of some decidedly antiromantic science. Ethical Technology
  • The slow disappearance of 'middle of the road' CNN between the opposing power of rightist-Fox and leftist-MSNBC in the broadcast realm is testimony to the ascendance of adversarial journalism. Charles H. Green: Stewart's and Colbert's Joke is On the Media
  • The pivot of this change was the Enlightenment, a time when the rational took ascendance over the mystical.
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