Sentence examples for ascendancy by from inspiring English sources
"ascendancy by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
This phrase can be used to mean gaining authority or control over something by someone, or a group of people. For example, "The ruling party maintained its ascendancy by winning the majority of the votes in the election."
The valor! Verily, the return of Camelot! Trump began his national ascendancy by hoisting the racist banner of birtherism.
No disgrace in that, but whether consciously or not, it's often seemed to affirm the Galaxy's ascendancy by setting up to try and match LA's proactive approach.
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".
The reasons for this cannot be documented, but they most likely stem in part from Giovanni's experience with Giotto's monumental and heroic style which was already in the ascendancy by the time that the Pistoia pulpit was completed.
Mexico were in the ascendancy by the mid-point of the second half, with Vedran Corluka clearing off his line following a corner and Stipe Pletikosa saving from Paul Aguilar with his foot.
Both will face tougher days than this and benefitted from the freedom of their team's ascendancy by the time they were involved, but the way Nevill in particular arrived at the crease in the first innings with such nerveless and busy intent seemed to spur Smith along further in his late-innings flurry.
In the south the ascendancy established by the Normans of Capua and by the Hautevilles gained strength with the conquest of Sicily from the Muslims in the late 11th century.
He had achieved a personal ascendancy unmatched by any Labour leader since Clement Attlee.
Horst Rechelbacher's life story reads like an epic: flights of ascendancy followed by crash and burn, with phoenixlike resurrections.
Having built his political appeal on distrust of Westminster and the virtues of the loyalist ascendancy epitomised by Stormont, in March 1972 he opted for full political integration with Great Britain.
His ascendancy, helped by Berlin's position at the center of an undivided Continent, has been furthered by the travails of Prime Minister Tony Blair with the outbreak of mad cow disease, and the growing political paralysis in France caused by the rivalry between the Gaullist president, Jacques Chirac, and the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin.
