How To Use Ascendancy In A Sentence
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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.
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The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
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In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
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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
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He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
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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
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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.
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An earlier chapter provides the reader with background on the Norman ascendancy through the regency of Adelaide.
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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.
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It had taken them about 20 minutes to gain any ascendancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.
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So while normcore may be in its ascendancy here in the States, Tokyo street style is still full-on maximalist.
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In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast.
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This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
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Why did a petty-bourgeois nationalist outlook gain ascendancy?
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Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
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Pop and rock are going through a major slump right now with full-on breadheads in the ascendancy.
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By the early 20th century the conservatives had gained ascendancy and the presidency remained within a handful of élite families as if it were their personal patrimony.
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He sums up with thoughts on the ascendancy of the power of nature.
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But there is, after all, prevalent among them a sufficiently evident logical inability to understand and appreciate the paramount need of national, that is to say dynastic, ascendancy that actuates all
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
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Cities often stumble onto projects and developments that turn them around, delivering them from a period of decline to one of ascendancy.
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As so many balconies are used during the cold months for unsightly storage, this is one trend that we hope will gain ascendancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples.
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I resented the notion broached upon her nomination - that one woman is as good as another, that Hillary voters will fall in lockstep behind her because they wouldn't care about or even notice the difference; that women would be happy to sacrifice their ideals at the altar of simple gender ascendancy.
RVABlogs
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Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
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Material signifiers gain aria-like ascendancy over immaterial meanings.
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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I feel much of the conflict is that of old structures fighting to keep hold their dominance against the ascendancy of the new paradigm.
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Thus the dinosaurs themselves probably gained ascendancy in precisely this fashion.
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In a 1987 interview, he deplored what he called the ascendancy of "right-wing kooks (and) the ugly spirit (of Reagan's not so subtle message that) you should go get yours and run.
IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
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English Catholics, among whom knights harbingers and banneret bearers of the Primrose League are numerous, who have leant all their weight in the scale to maintain the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, have been ever ready when occasion arose to appeal to the religious loyalty of the
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement
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Leaving aside cases of improper pressure or threats, undue influence may arise where the donee has acquired over the donor a measure of influence or ascendancy of which he takes unfair advantage.
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Yet farmer-led movements for sustainable agriculture are also in ascendancy.
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My view is that he combined two qualities that were, at the time of his ascendancy, regarded as mutually exclusive.
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And up to this period, when his more direct action on political affairs had only just begun, it is probable that his imperious need of ascendancy had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for
Romola
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This twin ascendancy of identity means that, when relating to the Untied States or the United Nations or the world at large, Chinese and Indian nationalism grows.
Apollo's Daughter :: Post-American World?
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Benitez had been prepared to use him if necessary on Saturday, with the prospect of overturning Chelsea's 3-1 first leg lead seemingly more remote than catching United, who regained the title ascendancy in unconvincing fashion with their 2-1 win at Sunderland.
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The international conjuncture formed a highly favourable environment for this turn: the global ascendancy of Anglo-American neo-liberalism offered a formidable backdrop to the French scene.
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England had to wrest from the Dutch their ascendancy in New
Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
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It extended from their arrival in Australia, and was marked by long and successful struggles against religious ascendancy, the partial cessation of convictism, and the beginnings fo the present hierarchical organization.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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By that stage even the Federal and High Courts will be starting to reflect the conservative ascendancy.
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Incidentally, some linguists would add PIE to this group, with the view that the language, or some key fraction of its speakers, spread over vast territories through ascendancy built on such technological advances as the spoked chariot wheel and weapons forged of metal.iii
The English Is Coming!
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What no science fiction writer before the moonshot anticipated was that the Space Race would start out as a contest between two military powers for ascendancy in the 'high ground' of outer space, which then devolved into a prestige project, whose prohibitive costs were bourn for such imponderable goals such as national bragging rights.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
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The tensions between the British-led contingent (that had arrived in Piraeus after the departure of the German troops in April) and EAM-ELAS had been on the ascendancy for some months.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer.
“Show the Dress”
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In the contest for national ascendancy, motherhood appeared to be trumping arms-bearing.
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Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
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The opposition party was in the ascendancy .
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Roman classicism had inspired Palladian architecture which was favoured by the Whig ascendancy in Britain.
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Christianity was in ascendancy, and its power was secured when Constantine made it the official state religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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Taking Gnosis to task casts the detractor as an unreasoning, narrow-minded brute, steeped in dogma and conversely, casts the Gnostic as an unharmful, gentle soul who believes in the fusion of all religion and would simply like to be allowed to get on with his own pursuit of spiritual ascendancy without coming under fire, a view quite appealing to a libertarian, for example.
[gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics
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But he was fully convinced that the first two would be best served by the continued ascendancy of the third.
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He showed stronger mettle than had been allowed him; bore a manlier part than was commonly ascribed to the slovenly slipshod habiliments and the aspects in which benignancy and vacillation seemed to struggle for the ascendancy.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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Another political reality is the ascendancy of the Republican Party.
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The global ascendancy and supremacy of the West is crucial for understanding IR even today.
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Throughout a stormy autumn the U - boats struggled vainly to regain the ascendancy in the North Atlantic.
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Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy.
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In England, from the later middle ages, justices of the peace rose to ascendancy as county authorities, marginalizing sheriffs.
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The ascendancy of the notion of proof as the sole goal of mathematics came about in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when attempts to understand the infinitesimal calculus led to a realization that the intuitive concepts of such basic concepts as function, continuity, and differentiability were highly problematic, in some cases leading to seeming contradictions.
MAA Column - Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin
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In the twentieth century, the epistemological framework that gained ascendancy within the philosophy of science is that of positivism.
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Victories won through aggressive offensive action would give a small army a moral ascendancy over its foes, allowing it to obtain decisive victory.
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It is probably also true that the U.S.A. will never again regain that same degree of ascendancy.
Some Canadian Myths About the U.S.
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Following his downfall, the conservatives in economic and religious positions are in the ascendancy.
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. Napoleon Hill
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It seems pointless to lump these three very different authors together, particularly when they are juxtaposed against a phalanx of the great and the good of mainly ascendancy writing.
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The Tories, however, enjoyed the ascendancy in the upper house.
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Suburban car culture is gaining ascendancy in Toronto, as can be seen on every corner.
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Yet his ascendancy was not as smooth and unchallenged as might have been expected.
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After a reconciliation in the royal family and the reunification of the Whig party in 1720, the ministry recovered its poise, and the Whig Ascendancy was not only restored but extended.
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In cases where self-interest and ambition are the basis of this peculiarity of temperament, and in an age when the conjuror and the alchemist were the companions and even the idols of princes, it is easy to trace the steps by which a gifted sage retains his ascendancy among the ignorant.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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The problem of translation has become a moral question of linguistic ascendancy.
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Carver honored Hemingway for his belief that “fiction must be based on actual experience” and later came to believe it “was not entirely coincidental” that shortly after Hemingway’s death, antirealist writing gained ascendancy in American fiction.
Raymond Carver
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Conclusion:Autologous red bone marrow injection has ascendancy such as less wound and clear clinical effect, which can accelerate bone healing and promotes functional recovery of limb.
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. Napoleon Hill
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As so many balconies are used during the cold months for unsightly storage, this is one trend that we hope will gain ascendancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Historic demographic shifts are fertilizing the landscape - from the ascendancy of women's leadership to the worldbeat of cultural and racial pluralism.
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan"
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Hounds were in ascendancy in the early part of the second half and Cygan went close yet again following a flowing move.
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Replacement's brainstorm at line-out put Wallabies back in ascendancy and concession of late penalty sealed fate of Lions.
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The retailer's ascendancy was expected after both companies issued their 2001 results earlier this year.
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Falkirk's ascendancy continued but they had goalkeeper Ferguson to thank for their clean sheet.
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Their continued ascendancy is a major blow — tilt the message and you gradually tilt the mind — to the left and to moderates.
2008 April : Law is Cool
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. Napoleon Hill
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Conclusion:Autologous red bone marrow injection has ascendancy such as less wound and clear clinical effect, which can accelerate bone healing and promotes functional recovery of limb.
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The right Liberal ascendancy in the late 1990s and early 2000s did little to arrest the debauchment of European and North American culture.
About that social encyclical...
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Ghastly pale, hovering like a ghoul, he looks as if evil has his heart in a vise. Even in his ascendancy you would never envy him.
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The goal is to win political ascendancy and control the political agenda.
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To ensure his continued ascendancy over Congress, Gandhi had to radicalize himself again.
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That view gained ascendancy and credibility when the atomic bomb brought on the final surrender of Japan.
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In nearby Qizilja, the Timimi tribe, which is Shia, is in the ascendancy, under the leadership of the powerful Mahdi Hassan Attia, the local mukhtar (magistrate).
The Protection Business
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Instead, bad ideas are likely to gain ascendancy and provide political cover for American politicians trying to avoid making the tough choices needed to right the American economy.
Economists React: Just How Good Is Gridlock?
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If the favourable asterism is in its ascendancy and if it alone exerts an influence over the new-born, then its good influence will increase.
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The ascendancy of laddish vulgarianism might not be great news, but it's probably more tolerable than the mass neurosis that we suffered through from the mid '80s.
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My view is that he combined two qualities that were, at the time of his ascendancy, regarded as mutually exclusive.
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I also feel that one of the results of Weiner's decision to put two years between the seasons -- and perhaps a conscious or unconscious choice on his part -- is that it gives us the opportunity to accelerate the professional ascendancy and of course descendancy (a real word?) of the characters, and that ultimately Peggy will supersede and replace Don in the advertising business.
All the Mad Men and all the Mad Women are having epiphanies
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ID programmatics is a schema of experimentations designed to resonate in an appropriate, modern, non-materialistic paradigm concerning the ontological necessities of life in a non-sectarian, but relevant, organization of progressive new-scientists who will more adequately prepare our robust society with the knowledge to continue our ascendancy into a non-violent, paradisic existence.
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His ascendancy among his countrymen was perfectly undisputed, and being possessed of great muscular strength, with that peculiarly "farouche" exterior, without which courage is nothing in France, he was in every way calculated for the infamous leadership he assumed.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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Jackie Estacado has been bestowed with the Darkness, an unseemingly evil concoction of ascendancy.
Comic Review: The Darkness #1-3: Raw Edition
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By the end of the twelfth century, Muslim sultans had come to ascendancy in Gujarat, marking the onset of many centuries of Islamic power in the region - and the end of the glory days of the Hindu stepwell.
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Bernard Lewis (Islam and the West) reminds us that learning about Islam is an old tradition which long antedates the Western ascendancy.
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Valenzuela was fascinated by Gallardo's willpower, and as their relationship changed Gallardo established a subtle ascendancy over his young captor.
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In "Enhancing Government," Erwin Chemerinsky provides a kind of holograph of what federalism -- as the federal-state relation is confusingly called -- would resemble if the U.S. were to enter a period of liberal ascendancy.
One Blueprint For Obama
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I like test matches myself, with subtleties of field-placing, long bowling spells and gradual shifts in ascendancy.
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It had taken them about 20 minutes to gain any ascendancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a few years before the ascendancy of such interpretations, a new naturistic-rationalistic evalua - tion of mythology came suddenly into prominence.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In the context of the Cold War and the ascendancy of the coalition parties in federal politics, these historians emphasised the role played by the labour movement in shaping Australian national life.
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Perhaps an alliance with the East Angles was the cornerstone of Aethelbald's ascendancy.
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Fostered by the spirit of freedom, which goes before to disenthral the mind from that state of servitude in which its powers had been made to minister to ignorant and wayward ambition, or still more cramping and perverting superstition, it promises to gain an universal ascendancy, and to render all that influence which had been arrayed against it, henceforth subservient only to its triumphs.
The History of Dartmouth College
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Indeed, the latter was marked by one of the highest ratios of female to male combatants in the history of the Second World War, a curious phenomenon in itself, and one which provided a crucial subtext to the tirades hurled at the partisan army by an outraged 'national-minded' countermovement on the ascendancy.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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As she watched her husband's ascendancy back home, few could have denied Victoria Beckham a moment's reflection on how their positions have been reversed.
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Dodging this question is a way of avoiding the most important dilemma of film's ascendancy: can a popular form of entertainment also produce art?
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While it is impossible to know the full dimensions at this point, the downdraft on wages and competing economies induced by China's ascendancy may produce a terrible reckoning.
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. Napoleon Hill