How To Use Ascendency In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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China's economic ascendency does not have to imply America's decline.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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"
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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)
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The unmitigated disaster that administration produced paved the way for Republican ascendency.
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For the past two weeks, tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Vienna and in other Austrian cities every night to protest the ascendency of racism and neo-fascism.
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The word rendered "garrison" is different from that of 1Sa 13: 23; 14: 1, and signifies, literally, something erected; probably a pillar or flagstaff, indicative of Philistine ascendency.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It is preposterous to expect that the same superstition regarding skin ascendency, which is now so markedly played out in our Colonies in temporal matters, could have any weight whatsoever in matters so momentous as morals and religion.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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The constraints became even clearer in the years of Whig ascendency under George I and George II.
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The German character is not only self-reliant, which is admirable, but it readily becomes domineering, particularly when in the ascendency.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
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Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?
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Putridity, from the avolation of its products, promotes levity, and that in proportion as its increase surpasses that of the general acid; and it is not until the action of the acetous becomes languid, that the putrid process gains the ascendency, when it is then difficult to overcome.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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We would, just for starters, argue that this "ascendency" -- not of "conservatism" with or without quotes, but of Rightist extremism -- dates to Nixon's brilliant and cowardly Southern strategy, and thus has crested forty.
Bats Left/Throws Right
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If you are interested in affecting public discourse, watch out - you may gain ascendency in certain circles, but you're just as likely to marginalize yourself instead.
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Then, however, without any kind of recrimination, any display of anger, or even any particular effort to regain her ascendency over him, she, on her side, imitated his example.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
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Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
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The ascendency of Hardwicke's position was aided by two factors in addition to Fortescue's retirement.
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This era also coincided with the ascendency of the photography fine art market, and the deskilling of photographic apparatus to the point where amateurs became capable of producing commercial-quality images.
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This noted personage is a Eutaw by birth, but forsook his own people and joined the Py-Euts, after he became a man, and by his prowess and bravery, acquired such an ascendency over the tribe of his adoption, as to become their principal chief.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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He was blunt in his bearing, saying things which her father would have called indelicate and heartless, as though they gave him no effort, and placing himself at once almost in a position of ascendency.
The Belton Estate
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Lady Rice, Angelica and Jelly: Lady Rice and Angelica fight it out for ascendency: Jelly is Angelica's creature.
SPLITTING
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Wes Clark chose his, and the other team, some of whom are currently in ascendency, are still trying to exact a price.
Archive 2004-01-01
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Do they promulgate a conservative ascendency when they fail to draw real lines between them and the other party?
Meet Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN). | RedState
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= Probably Sirius, the Dog Star, under whose ascendency, according to ancient beliefs, epidemic diseases prevailed.
Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
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The "loyal opposition" now seems more interested in ensuring its "ascendency" than in serving the whole of the American people.
Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
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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.
