ascendency

How To Use ascendency In A Sentence

• Genoa is now jealous of Turin's political ascendency, which is just as sensible as would be jealousy of Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.
• On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Virginia is very much in ascendency while the Republican Party of Virginia is very much in its descent. Waldo Jaquith - Boston Globe on Vice President Kaine.
• China's economic ascendency does not have to imply America's decline.
• We _can_ attack here with more men and more munitions than the enemy the very moment we care to accept the principle that, _at this moment_, Constantinople and the heartening up of Russia and ascendency amongst the Balkan States are not only the true positive objectives of our strategy, but are the sole strategical stunts upon the board. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
• The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
• The ineradicable divisions of Guelf and Ghibelline were a heavy price to pay for a step forward on the path of emancipation; nor was the ecclesiastical revolution, which tended to Italianize the Papacy, while it magnified its cosmopolitan ascendency, other than a source of evil to the nation. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
• You assume that campaigning on issues that are not now in ascendency will have no impact on the subcomponents of the electorate: people. Sound Politics: Post-Mortem: McGavick v. Cantwell
• Ascendency quantifies growth and development of an ecosystem as a product of total system throughflow and the mutual information inherent in the pattern of internal system flows.
• Like the politicians described by Thucydides, Republican members of Congress now seem more deeply committed to their own partisan "ascendency" than to governing in a responsible manner. Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
• Protestant ascendency means nothing less than an influence obtained by virtue, by love, or even by artifice and seduction, -- full as little an influence derived from the means by which ministers have obtained an influence which might be called, without straining, an _ascendency_, in public assemblies in England, that is, by a liberal distribution of places and pensions, and other graces of government. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)