The phrase "ascendancy class" is not commonly used in written English and may not be widely recognized.
It can be used in discussions about social hierarchies or power dynamics, particularly in academic or sociological contexts.
Example: "The ascendancy class in this society has significant influence over political decisions and economic policies."
Alternatives: "ruling class" or "dominant class".
In Wales, as in Ireland, an anglicized and Anglican Tory "ascendancy" class of landed gentry dominated a Celtic people of different race and religion.
Guinness is discomfited to find that she cannot address this situation without looking, to the Kirwans and to others in the locality, like a harsh landlord of the ascendancy class to which she, however distantly, belongs – class divisions cannot be chatted away.
Grinding Gear reports that it's also experimenting with changes to "accuracy, melee splash, leech, fortify, various Ascendancy classes, the passive tree, hit/miss feedback, melee base types, movement skills and melee damage availability on items". This sounds more like a complete overhaul and a rebalance.
His previous novel, "White Guys," also tackles class ascendancy through real estate.
This "mass class" ascendancy is an approach that Friedman — a fan of Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Elon Musk and Adele — says is about more than just profit.
The resulting Protestant Ascendancy, the aristocratic class of the Lordship of Ireland, broadly identified themselves as Anglo-Irish.
Ms. Seah's statements raise an interesting question: Is this part of a phenomenon that the columnist Chrystia Freeland has written about so ably for this newspaper, the ascendancy of a wealthy, "plutocrat" class and the slipping status of the middle class?
Taira Kiyomori, (born 1118, Japan died March 21 , 1181 Kyōto), first of the Japanese soldier-dictators, whose victories in the Hōgen and Heiji disturbances marked the ascendancy of the provincial warrior class to positions of supreme power.
The Labour party's vote is in a state of seemingly unstoppable decline as its membership becomes ever-more metropolitan and middle class, problems the ascendancy of Jeremy Corbyn has seemingly made worse.
By the time we get to the second play, Ivanov, that stultifying bourgeois merchant class is in the ascendancy.
Also like President Obama, Rudd epitomizes the ascendancy of a new "progressive" educated class in Australia that has little allegiance to the traditional notions of what constitutes "the good life" for the vast majority of citizens.
