How To Use Ascent In A Sentence

Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
While the generally liberal-leaning U.S. foreign policy establishment was quick to equate Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's
Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent.

Is that strangling the nascent ‘alarm tone’ market?
P. testa ovata, rimata, ferruginea; spira mediocri, apice eroso; anfractibus tribus, convexis, simplicibus, transversim crebre crenato-striatis; apertura ovata, intus purpurascente; labio tenui, late reflexo; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick.
They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles.
2 miles; strenuous walk, steep ascent; hillwalking footwear. Times, Sunday Times
The comparison of newly formed polyploids with their haploid progenitors has revealed that nascent polyploids have a defect in stationary-phase viability.
The essentials were, first, to be certain Schuyler was going to advance in the general direction of Montreal; second, to procure the necessary batteaux for the ascent of the rivers; and, third, to find an able man to lead the expedition. Washington
I began composing an introduction praising the spiritual enlightenment exhibited in choosing to congregate in taverns, like 1849 San Jose legislators stepping in from muddy streets to drink whisky on barrelheads, before plotting out the future of nascent California.
In mid December, the dog teams turned back, leaving the rest to face the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier and the polar plateau.
The magmatic fabric of a plutonic rock forms during a relatively short time interval, after ascent and before final crystallization of magma.
On one of his quick ascents during one of the many dogfights that day, Roll's wingman signaled his squadron leader.
After the first hour or so of gentle ascent through a lava flow the climb steepens.
Bear right through the gate off the main path and begin the steep, steep ascent directly to the summit.
What followed was a chaotic period in which Sparta, Thebes, and a renascent Athens jostled for power, with Persia stirring the pot.
Boise State's ascent to national prominence came amid a 52% rise in athletics spending in that same four-year period, close to tripling a 19% increase in total institutional expenditures. Missouri shows how schools pay a price for football success
In this section, we focus on how businesses are using nascent concepts such as "anything-as-a-service", "multisided business models", "the co-creation of content" and "innovation from the bottom of the pyramid" to create successful and sustainable businesses in the face of disruption. Rebooting Business
Once destined to take the place of the Saturn Aura, the Regal should meet a happier fate as part of the renascent Buick lineup. Driving impressions: Buick Regal
So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
The brain and nervous system display the same progressive ascent from the brainless acrania, up through the fishes, batrachia, reptiles, and birds to the top in mammals. Time and Change
It is hard not to gasp at the speed of the ascent and my admiration is more marked, and more edgy, because I know that the whole structure is balanced on a bearing the size of a small, round coffee table, like a pencil poised on the tip of its lead.
In 1955 he led the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain.
Who was the first man to make an ascent in a balloon?
The ear-popping ascent from the floor of Silicon Valley winds under moss-covered trees, eventually becoming decidedly too small for two cars to pass. Ridge Monte Bello and Paul Draper's forty years of making it | Dr Vino's wine blog
No adult should be permitted to take a child from her parent or guardian, and then take away her nascent free will.
Mumbai already boasts a nascent advertising industry and China made it into the top 10 countries for patent applications last year.
Elizabeth, in her riding habit, is about to begin her ascent up the mountain.
But it also stymied Egypt's nascent transition towards democracy. Times, Sunday Times
It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
His climbing record lists a multiplicity of outstanding ascents from around the world.
Her professional life continues its steady ascent, and the novel culminates with her promotion to the position of assistant minister of education.
Theirs has been no rapid ascent to stardom. Times, Sunday Times
And if you bonk on though ascents like these, the efforts taking your toll on your legs may well lessen your downhilling abilities too.
A fall might entail disastrous consequences, and, therefore, the ascent should be attempted only by experienced cragsmen.
His account of his ascent to the upper echelons of the British literary canon is so concise and unembellished, so, well, Swiftian, it could have been delivered by one of his own characters.
What you can't dispute is the rapid ascent of the band. Times, Sunday Times
A splendid Stalagmite standing 2 to 3 feet high and set apart from the drab brown of the rest of the passage by its white crystalline purity greeted my ascent.
As teenagers though, the beach suddenly and wonderfully enlarges, like the first blinding moments of the nascent universe.
Walk alongside Mosedale Beck and after a short while gaze in awe at the steep ascent summoning you.
An hour or two before launch the guidance software that controls the vehicle's ascent is loaded.
Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell is another haunting book, a reading experience that can only be compared with an Everest ascent, with the thematic summit of the book occurring midway through, by which point we've leapfrogged from the the early nineteenth century to the twenty third (or thereabouts). MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
One of the main reasons is the rapid ascent of Vietnam from the bottom to the top of the world coffee production league in the last decade.
Unfortunately, past the chalet, the wind has come up and the final 6 kilometres over the moonscape is a vastly different challenge from our first ascent from Bedoin. PezCyclingNews.com
Burke pushed the button and the elevator began its slow ascent.
On the contrary, his dive computer recorded a very gradual ascent. Times, Sunday Times
The discovery gave a big boost to the nascent Green movement. Times, Sunday Times
Rapid ascent of hydrothermal fluids derived from shallow-metamorphic and deep-burial diagenetic settings is well known from many sedimentary basins.
To deoxidation of the coloring matter by substances, which have a great tendency to become oxidised or peroxised; _e. g._ hydrogen, in the case of decolorisation by sulphuretted hydrogen, nascent hydrogen, and the protoxides of iron and tin, &c. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
As seen from the following examples taken from the nascent Far East marketplace, numerous opportunities exist.
A formidable array of investors and established tech giants is piling into the nascent online education sector. Times, Sunday Times
Very early this morning, she set our ascent rope with a hundred-foot shot over a high branch from her crossbow, and now she fixes her ascenders to the anchored line and snaps them to her harness with a locking carabiner.
They had left the hamlet and circled to the far side of the hill before beginning their ascent, threading their way through rocks and scrub to the wood straddling the crest.
Phil's pissed with my slow ascent to bestsellerdom. My fave post
Wind measurements were performed every 4 h by tracking the ascent of a pilot balloon by radar.
A long ascent of the steep hill is rewarded by a rest bench overlooking an idyllic scene. Times, Sunday Times
If a substance containing arsenic is now introduced into the generator A, the arsenic is converted into arsine by the action of the nascent hydrogen, and passes to the jet along with the hydrogen. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
The ascent is one of the most daring exploits of the cragsmen of the Island.
Half a dozen trips from Lisbon back to Angola have given this exile a renascent interest in his roots.
The Proclamation gave both an edge and a target to the newly renascent Illinois Democrats.
She was America's leading female alpinist, the only woman internationally to climb six of 14 peaks that measured 8,000 meters: Gasherbrum II, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak, Shishapangma, and Everest (twice), and the record holder of unexplored first mountain ascents. Jane Dwyre Garton: Remembering Chris Boskoff
His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
Imagine a time without guidebooks, when all routes were first ascents, when hemp ropes and cleated boots were de rigueur.
Her meteoric ascent began young. Times, Sunday Times
On September 15th we reached the top of the ascent which, from its many ups and downs, had often made us puff and blow as if broken-winded. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Analysts are of the opinion that the separation would allow the company to grow its nascent mobile and internet operations more aggressively.
It is very disheartening to read all these admonitions to this nascent antiwar movement saying that the participants are somehow being unserious.
Ascents into the galleries, entries through the yard, acrobatic descents from the stage-roof trap are among the many examples of the production's imaginative use of the architectonic opportunities afforded by the building.
With the lie of Scottish theatreland already shifting, we are seeing a nascent, semiconscious shuffling for position for next year's awards.
The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. Chapter 10
They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles.
A nascent neo - nationalism is emerging but so too is a cussed independence.
The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace.
Many people come to make the ascent, some to climb its tremendous cliffs, others merely to look at it.
However, it also is required to have a reascent of at least 500ft (150m) on all sides. Times, Sunday Times
The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Force and fraud were then dextrously applied to secure his ascent from the Dalriadan to the Pictish throne a few years later. 'The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth'
He is black, and some people were quick to credit his ascent to affirmative action and his editors' desire for a more diverse reporting staff.
Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
It did not take long after his ascent to the papacy for vehement criticism to be unleashed by Argentine activists. Times, Sunday Times
The modern phase of Mysore began from 1800 with the ascent to the throne of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III.
The former Wimbledon champion, heart-throb, wannabe rock star and the man who made the first ascent through the crowd on Centre Court, is the most astonishing interviewee I have encountered: he is both delightful and quite terrifying.
The broad story of Capote's ascent to literary greatness and descent into decades of writer's block in that time is well known.
My point in all this is not that the nascent political process is pointless - quite the opposite.
This unbreakable bond that unites as one,Is as strong as the ascent of the morning sun.Infinite days and nights of joy stream by,And even beyond the day we die.
The time-pressed can try bouldering, which entails traversing and short ascents that can be completed sans rope.
The danger is that slowing growth in China puts paid to this nascent recovery. Times, Sunday Times
[The women] had detached the two ashplants from their baggage and were making good use of them as aids to the ascent of the hill.
The scenery in all directions is particularly spectacular - it is often the case that the ascent of a smaller hill gives the best views of its larger neighbours.
The Mongol invasions no doubt spurred on Japan's nascent national consciousness and also contributed greatly to the final collapse of the Kamakura bakufu. 1224
During the ascent it smartly taps the bark, prising off fragments and frequently extracting food from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue.
We finned back along the port side and, after a bottom time of 15 minutes, our slow ascent up the shotline commenced.
The whole descent and reascent is made quickly, quietly, and, if possible, only once. Further Foolishness
Both areas transformed into renascent military fronts against Israel, building to a series of violent conflagrations in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Adam Chandler: Is There an Israeli Left Left?
Though Islamic philosophers had a independent, religious tradition of allegorical literature from which they could draw, the allegories from medieval Islamic thinkers tend to concern the same Neoplatonic themes of the ascent of the soul and the Neoplatonic structure of the cosmos, allegorizing the stages of emanation from and return to the One. Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
Reaching the little square in front of the Hermitage, he rested from the ascent, stretching out full length on the crescent of rubblework that formed a bench near the sanctuary. The Torrent Entre Naranjos
As flight director, Mr Noble, who attended Burnley Grammar School and took up ballooning in 1974, was to mastermind the ascent and ensure the pilots return safely to earth.
Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous.
Now the 27 year old from Pamplona is hitting the steepest part of the ascent, and gritting his teeth as the road ramps up.
From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reascent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
The debate about the relative strengths of Israeli forces and the invading Arab armies is just part of a pernicious campaign to discredit the very real existential security concerns that Israel has had to deal with, continuously, since the pre-independence days as a nascent state. Matthew Yglesias » Five State Solution
Hitherto one of the chief objections to the use of the tricycle has been the great difficulty experienced in climbing hills, a very slight ascent being sufficient to tax the powers of the rider to such an extent as to induce if not compel him in most instances to dismount and wheel his machine along by hand until more favorable ground is reached. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Keep going, however, and an ascent up sloping bedrock will be found at the end on the right.
It was an awkward ascent, but we reached the top eventually.
In The Moralists the steps of ascent are defined; from the admiration of beautiful objects we rise to the in - sight that it is art, the beautifying, which is beautiful; from the love of beautiful bodies we pass to the recog - nition that their beauty is founded not in the body qua body, but in a forming power (or inward form), in action and intelligence, i.e., in the mind. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Sharp, rocky eminences began to rise around them, and, in a short time, deep declivities and ascents, both formidable in height and difficult from the narrowness of the path, offered to the travellers obstacles of a different kind from those with which they had recently contended. The Talisman
Ascentech announces support services for Gen3 Systems solderability testers Undefined
These were years of nascent economic, infrastructural, and political modernization.
As in all countries where the gods were individualised, the men of Celtic lands, whether aborigines or invaders, had toiled along the steep ascent from the primitive vague sense of being haunted to a belief in gods who, like Esus, Teutates, Grannos, Bormanus, Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
Public sector cuts are still casting a shadow on this nascent recovery. Times, Sunday Times
The most ominous feature of last week's surrender to renascent union power was its institutionalisation - something denied to the TUC barons even in the 1970s.
The threat of free web-based applications is still nascent. Times, Sunday Times
The nitriding process is based on the affinity of nascent nitrogen for iron and certain other. metallic elements.
Flames licked out of the exhaust as the plane lifted off the runway and began the ascent, and as the noise faded into the distance it seemed to get even more intense.
Maybe the results were pre-ordained by the intrinsic superiority of a renascent New Zealand.
Actor, action-movie star, farmhand, Calvin Klein underwear model, and nascent motivational speaker, Kellan Lutz is the man of the moment. Twilight Lexicon » Kellan Lutz In Interview Magazine
He bonked over the next ascent, losing more than a minute, and the overall leader's mantle, to The Falcon.
Additionally, these bolts and other protection are commonly used to rest on during the ascent.
Bear right through the gate off the main path and begin the steep, steep ascent directly to the summit.
Greetings cybernauts this is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents' 2003 Mt Everest ascent.
To try to avoid getting the bends, extreme divers spend hours on ascent, sitting at targeted depths for carefully calculated periods of decompression to allow the gases to flush safely from their bodies.
In the pull, I heard a ‘thump’ and concluded that the tailwheel must have gone to full extension and hit a lower stop as a result of the ascent rate.
It would further the galloping consolidation under way in a nascent industry. Times, Sunday Times
The stress of the situation must have driven her to push hard in the race, as she rode strongly and powered up the final ascent to win the race.
Though Arthur was initially shocked by his ascent to the presidency, he rose to the occasion.
These very long, spiraled nascent bdellovibrio were proposed earlier from electron microscope images to be common in spirilla, which are long and coiled themselves.
Good judgement of conditions, an early start and a fast, efficient ascent are essential to avoid such torrid descent.
As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid. The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
But in one place a nunatak about 250 feet high stood out in front of the precipice, and the ascent of this offered no great difficulty. The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey
And ironically, that image did more than anything to galvanise the nascent ecology movement. Times, Sunday Times
After having been on his feet twenty-four hours, in the exhausting work of mountain-climbing, Sir George began the reascent at the head of the relief party of six guides, to recover the corpse of his brother. A Tramp Abroad
During ascents, a single-setting heel lifter keeps your calves from combusting, while the girth of the two-edged ‘skis’ makes walking through deep powder a breeze.
He had by-passed a stone-age dolmen on his ascent and skirted the mound of a ring-fort.
The 5. 5-mile ascent from the valley up to Verbier was the first time that the Tour has visited the ski resort. Contador climbs to lead of Tour de France with Stage 15 win
Two hours later, from another thicket, Koolau watched a body of police trying to make the ascent from the opposite side of the valley. Koolau the Leper
While things are going well, their nascent union does not yet feel entirely nailed on. Times, Sunday Times
This all seems like foolish talk because Bond 23 is in nascent stages. Rumor of the Day: Olivia Wilde and Freida Pinto for Bond 23 | /Film
Ozone also tends to be unstable and break down into dioxygen and nascent oxygen and to react readily with other substances.
She recalled the nascent shock at her triumph still present in Jake's eyes even after he'd stopped moving and dove again to arise and meet the statues 'feral glares. Beautiful Ape Girl Baby
Imagine him rushing to Berlin after the downturn in Axis fortunes to parley with the man in charge because he was the democratically elected leader and symbol of the renascent German nation.
We'll see if, like his brother, Stephen can feast on Indy League pitching before making a rapid ascent to the bigs.
He, along with Graeme Nicol and the lyric mountain churl Tom Patey (who died in 1970 falling off a sea stack called The Maiden), did the first ascent of Ben Nevis's Zero Gully, then one of the hardest ice climbs in the world, in 1957.
It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
One only needs to wait for the continent's biggest soccer event, the African Nations' Cup in January 2002, to prove how the game is at the core of renascent nationalism whenever patriotism needed revival in any participating country.
More fundamentally, the nascent threat of pharming re-emphasises the need to revamp DNS systems and domain registration that critics argue is long overdue.
Yet far from welcoming an effort to provide Europe with a nascent expeditionary capability, he may misgive it.
He rejoined us at the crest of the first ridge, where the wall leveled out and began a more gradual ascent to the peak.
After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
In 2004 their study concluded that the risk of such damage could be increased by anything that disrupted the slow ascent of the mammals to the surface. Times, Sunday Times
These we passed on the way up, an ascent made easy to Nab Farm by a metalled track.
To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize. The Lord of the Rings
Late Autumn might have with its predecessor, the similarities are more significant, particularly a quality that Michael Atkinson attributed to Ozu's Zen-infused sensibility translates on film to something like the art form's nascent formal beauty: patiently watching little happen, and the meditative moments around the nonhappening, until it becomes crashingly apparent that lives are at stake and the whole world is struggling to be born. ' GreenCine Daily
Most people consider acne to be a consequence of being a teenager, as though it were a rite of passage marking the ascent into adulthood.
They're "the payload" - if we need to drive a palentologist and a crustal geologist around Mars a bunch, they're NSSA astronauts, even if a NSDA astronaut pilots the lander/ascent vehicle and tags along to help carry rocks back to the rover. What Civil Space Agency Would You Create? - NASA Watch
Of more general interest, perhaps, is his account of the nascent viticulture of the poorer peasants on the cleared hillsides.
Flames licked out of the exhaust as the plane lifted off the runway and began the ascent, and as the noise faded into the distance it seemed to get even more intense.
The best of the past, not the nascent future, was his main concern.
Keep these accounts unfastened with a balance of 70\% Oregon less and paid on clip and you will witnesser your credit score ascent to great heights. All about credit cards
Ascent and decline of monodactyl equids: A case for prehistoric overkill. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
Nascent 2D crystallites try to minimize their surface energy and inevitably morph into one of the rich variety of stable 3D structures that occur in soot. Haddock Links
In another sixty or seventy yards the tunnel would begin a final ascent to its exit on the western side of the arroyo where Axler's men would be waiting with their transport.
BAND of ill-matched climbers embarks on a risky ascent, cockily certain they can weather any storm.
Last night's problem was with one of the four engine cut-off sensors, which are responsible for making sure the spacecraft's main engines shut down at the proper point during the ascent.
A gutsy group of Ukrainians has made the world's first underground balloon ascent in a disused coal mine in Doneck.
You should therefore avoid a quick ascent and take time to acclimatise to the mountains' oxygen challenged air.
It forms part of a nascent movement seeking to articulate the controversial message that not all kids are scum and, furthermore, we as paranoid adults should just chillax a little.
Torrents were in store, for they coursed streamingly still and had not the higher lift, or eagle ascent, which he knew for one of the signs of fairness, nor had the hills any belt of mist-like vapour. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
When you reach the rushes and a good stone track, you've done the ascent, the rest is a cruise.
This unbreakable bond that unites as one,Is as strong as the ascent of the morning sun.Infinite days and nights of joy stream by,And even beyond the day we die.
When Unitarianism in Britain officially began, it was not long before it attracted the attention of one Iolo Morganwg, who had earlier written a huge collection of material for the nascent Druid movement, and went on to become a Unitarian minister and to write many of the hymns used in the Welsh Unitarian hymnbook. Archive 2009-07-01
Several bloggers reported on an agreement signed in early June between two leading ICT organisations that will provide unprecedented opportunities for ICT students, create thousands of jobs, and underpin the growth of this nascent industry. Global Voices in English » Ghana: Bloggers Discuss Business Process Outsourcing
He felt thankful at least that his plans called for no reascent of the hill later. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon
The fact that these same government agents then "infiltrated" the nascent Reform Party, to the great embarrassment of Preston Manning, shows that these "anti-hate" campaigns have long been torqued into a partisan political weapon. March 25th should be interesting - Ezra Levant
While things are going well, their nascent union does not yet feel entirely nailed on. Times, Sunday Times
In the postwar world, when the nascent conservative movement was finding its identity, an awful lot was up for grabs. Christianity Today
In the ascent phase, the four ascent thrust vector control drivers respond to commands from the guidance system. Transition Team Update - NASA Watch
The experienced climbers had stayed an extra day just to make the ascent. The Sun
As part of the mission, Apollo 10's lunar module ascent stage -- affectionately called 'Snoopy' -- was discarded and sent into an orbit around the sun. 42 years later and it's still believed to be out there. FOXNews.com
We were both experienced climbers with numerous winter ascents to our credit.
This episode illustrates both the potential and the constraints of the EU's nascent foreign policy.
Those, he had always thought cynically, were the symptoms, not of nascent melancholia but of lack of stamina. MURDER SONG
Troubled by his own nascent Catholicism as well as the state of war-torn Europe, Francis Poulenc wrote his choral masterpiece, Figure humaine, in 1943, calling the cantata both a "sacred duty" and a patriotic gesture to France. Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works
The pair had skied to the final rock ridge and were roped together for the final ascent. Times, Sunday Times
Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn.
In the bargain, the dark do not hunt one down; alas one is only setting oneself to be used in the dance, and this will lead to a failed ascent in the long haul.
We live in a nascent stratocracy - a government ruled by military.
In the postwar world, when the nascent conservative movement was finding its identity, an awful lot was up for grabs. Christianity Today
Thus Indian society was governed, not by civil, but by ceremonially religious law; while, conversely, the nascent Indian religion ( "Brahminism") became not ethical but social in character. The New World of Islam
Bruno restored the balance from teetering totally towards the canvas by his ascent to a brief reign as holder of a version of the world title.
It is little wonder, therefore, to find that there are still ‘pinch me’ moments for the rising star, given her remarkable ascent into the limelight.
Luckily when you are on the ascent the path cleverly twists and turns over the one-step streams to make the going reasonable, avoiding the worst.
Reports suggested that the relatively nascent technology of lithium ion batteries - which previously have caused fires in laptops and electric vehicles - may be at fault. Times, Sunday Times
It really is splendid, an easy walk with just a short ascent to reach the beginning of the ridge.
The conductor, who will be 57 on May 2, attributes his workaholism to a twist of fate: his professional ascent at the fabled Mariinsky Theater (then called the Kirov) during troubled times. His More Focused Future
Just minutes earlier, the plane had leveled off after a steep corkscrew ascent.
"The children aren't scared," your partner snaps, as your holiday flight leaves the runway and begins its stomach-churning ascent.

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