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• His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
• The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
• In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
• A healthy suppuration will always set in after the exhibition of Apis, provided Sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the ascendancy. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
• He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
• The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
• Not only can we sing and dance to Bollywood numbers, Indian classical music and bhangra, but fusions of East and West are fast gaining the ascendancy.
• An earlier chapter provides the reader with background on the Norman ascendancy through the regency of Adelaide.
• The voices of the nay-sayers are in the ascendancy, questioning the US's ability to reinvent itself, to heal its wounded economy and sustain its leadership in the face of a burgeoning China.
• It had taken them about 20 minutes to gain any ascendancy. Times, Sunday Times