Lar said that Nigeria's northern Muslims should remember that the man who laid the foundation for their ascendancy to power, the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, had, in his lifetime, ensured that there were good schools in the north, and had encouraged co-education of males and females.
Strongbow, with the approval of King Henry II of England, arrived near Waterford in August 1169, establishing the unbroken English presence and ascendancy to power in Ireland.
A senior military post for Kim Jong-un was a prerequisite for his ascendancy to power.
The truth is that there is absolutely nothing admirable in the Republican ascendancy to power.
By the time the results of the research were published, the issue of parental leave was moving from the margins to the mainstream, and its salience as a policy issue directly tracked New Labour's ascendancy to power.
But in our push for ascendancy, for power, for dominance -- over the land, over each other, over the odds, over Mother Nature herself -- we have poisoned our providence and sullied the source of our own livelihood.
Mr. Somsak's case comes at a time of fractured politics, the ascendancy of Thai military power and a national sense of anxiety over the declining health of King Bhumibol, 83, who has been hospitalized since September 2009 with various ailments.
Energy analysts said it was either an acknowledgment that Gazprom had failed to adjust to changes in the global gas industry or a sign of the ascendancy of a competing power base in Russian energy politics.
For over 50 years, American unions have served to counterbalance the ascendancy of unsheathed corporate power that threatens now to overwhelm American Democracy.
You have every reason to look forward to a new era of power and ascendancy.
The ascendancy of albums shifted the power to the stars, who indulged their own impulses through cover art and song sequencing and on the tracks that surrounded each album's potential hits.
