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The failed Barents expedition took place during the late-sixteenth-century Dutch ascendancy on the seas.

But it is probably impossible for our two species, interdependent since the dim beginning of our ascendancy on this earth, not to communicate.

Ben Stokes said England were "very happy" with the way they bowled despite a rare day of Australian ascendancy on the first day of the fifth Test here.

Hasdrubal, (died 207 bc), Carthaginian general who unsuccessfully attempted to sustain military ascendancy on the Spanish peninsula in the face of Roman attacks.

He did not gain ascendancy on a promise of unity and compromise, but by running on a platform of resentment, rage and bigotry.

China, as the host of that 1995 conference, jointly hosted Sunday's meeting, which enabled Mr. Xi, analysts said, to highlight his country's ascendancy on the world stage.

– This rapid ascendancy of nutrition on policy agendas has some similarities to the ascendancy of global health that began a decade or two earlier.

A few weeks later came a testy rebuttal, "Crimes Against Humanities" by Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, rejecting Dr. Pinker's views on the ascendancy of science.

In the end, it is a statement on the ascendancy of the professional athlete in America that there is any kind of public disagreement — let alone a loud one — over the everlasting worthiness of players like Bonds and Clemens.

Today's conservative intelligentsia has been so flummoxed by Trump's ascendancy because, on so many issues, he is squarely against Ryan's worldview.

George (whose family name rhymes with "grow") was a child both of the Wasp ascendancy, then on the cusp of its decline, and of the mass media, print division, then at its apex.