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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.

"He has lost the moral ascendancy to govern," he said of Mr. Estrada.

And it inevitably focuses on his possible ascendancy to the tax-writing committee's chairmanship.

A FORTHCOMING paper in the Journal of Development Economics looks at the dollar's ascendancy to global reserve currency.

We tend to attribute more prestige, power and ascendancy to academic-serialist styles of music than they deserve.

EMarketer attributed Google's ascendancy to stronger-than-expected performance from mobile ads, the success of display ads on YouTube and strong performance from DoubleClick.

But Paul Ryan's ascendancy to the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket is a signal event for a movement that counts him as one of their own.

He doesn't have the youth, the excitement factor, or the opportunity to present his potential ascendancy to the Oval Office as a historic turning point.

The moment of Will.i.am's ascendancy to the firmament of British heroes is as mystical as the source of the Nile once was.

Whatever disagreement has prompted Saif's retirement it is almost certainly a temporary blip, or even a cleverly planned publicity stunt in his slow ascendancy to power.