Sentence examples for and the ascendancy of from inspiring English sources

This changed, she said, with the mismanagement of the transition and the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood to power.

And the ascendancy of authoritarians is killing sport's claim to promote dignity and fraternity.Three kinds of change are needed.

The Sunnis were privileged under Saddam, and the ascendancy of the Shia majority since his fall is one cause of frustration among them.

Gandhi keenly registered the moral and psychological effects of this worldwide destruction of old ways and life styles and the ascendancy of Western cultural, political, and economic norms.

The implication is that little of value, artistically or historically, occurred between the death of John Coltrane in 1967 and the ascendancy of Marsalis in the 1990's.

Mr. Wang's political standing was rehabilitated in 1979, after the death of Mao and the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping, and his party membership was restored.

And after the ascendancy of dark woods and vintage references in recent seasons, this show was notable for bright colors, simple forms and a preponderance of environmentally friendly and unstained reclaimed woods.

Before the rise of Christianity and Islam as worldwide religions and before the ascendancy of One God as the sole sovereign of the entire universe, deities were territorial and limited in what they could do.

It is unclear whether the story of the two Wests was responsible for the eventual failure of bertillonage and for the ascendancy of fingerprinting.

The 90-minute film, which makes its debut Saturday night, is a workmanlike recounting of their testy relationship, which defined professional basketball during the 1980s, after the decline of Julius Erving and before the ascendancy of Michael Jordan.

Regionalism was equated with America-first isolationism, and with the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism, if Benton were mentioned at all, it was because he had been Jackson Pollock's teacher.