Sentence examples for ascendancy the from inspiring English sources

Technically, he belonged to the Protestant "ascendancy"—the landed Irish gentry but his impractical father was first a sinecured civil servant and then an unsuccessful grain merchant, and George Bernard grew up in an atmosphere of genteel poverty, which to him was more humiliating than being merely poor.

Yet after only a year of Democratic ascendancy, the Grand Old Party has recovered its mojo.

When their team was in the ascendancy the cries of "All Blacks!

During their ascendancy the Medici subsidized virtually the entire range of humanistic and artistic activities associated with the Renaissance.

In April 1992, in the first general elections after his ascendancy, the Conservatives won, confirming his leadership.

Yet there was one: Before halftime, with Germany ahead, 2-1, and England seemingly in the ascendancy, the referee ruled out a clear tying goal.

While Marlborough achieved honours on the battlefield, the Whigs, now in the ascendancy, drove the remaining Tories from the Cabinet.

Inside, it hailed the ascendancy of the accessory to "the top rung of the fashion ladder".

It also marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the Metropolis of Patras in the peninsula's ecclesiastical affairs.

This changed, she said, with the mismanagement of the transition and the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood to power.

Nor was the Ascendancy experience the same thing as the English experience.