Sentence examples for any ascendancy from inspiring English sources

"We couldn't get any ascendancy," he said.

With England reluctant but aware of the need for a long pass, Hodgson kept Young high up the pitch in order to benefit from any aerial ascendancy Carroll might have achieved against Hangeland.

Despite the muscular endeavour of Billy Vunipola, Dave Attwood, James Haskell and Dan Cole and the early departure of a dazed Sean O'Brien, England were unable to gain any forward ascendancy and Sexton comfortably won his fly-half duel with George Ford.

Should Mr. Gore win, the enraged camp in the G.O.P. will overreach as it has in reaction to any Clinton-Gore ascendancy.

It would be perverse to suggest that the SNP's political ascendancy shows any signs of faltering.

China is "determined to gain technological ascendancy by any means possible," Gapper writes, "including taking western technology and reworking it just enough to claim it as its own".

Dortmund were clearly in the ascendancy but any thoughts the tie was done and dusted were nearly silenced when their goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller had to fingertip away Fernandinho's cross-shot shortly before half-time.

"The PYD and the [Iraqi Kurds] need each other too much in the fight against ISIS, so any jostling for regional ascendancy or control of the wider Kurdish movement will have to wait until after the immediate ISIS threat fades," said Max Hoffman, a national security analyst at the Center for American Progress.

He had achieved a personal ascendancy unmatched by any Labour leader since Clement Attlee.

It's as if Manhattan has to be disgraced and humiliated for any other borough to gain ascendancy.

Even so, he wrote, "We believe the white race, by their intellectual and traditional superiority, will retain sufficient ascendancy to prevent any serious mischief from the new order of things".