Sentence examples for ascendant from inspiring English sources

The debate between the two raged briefly, but six months on there is no doubt which side are in the ascendant.

African leaders sent a signal last week that agriculture in the ascendant sector when, for the first time ever, they selected an agriculture minister, Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina, to head the African Development Bank.

Its evil echo reverberates in this new episode: Sansa refuses to eat, while the wicked King Joffrey is ascendant.

Mr Paisley's wish to renegotiate the agreement without the participation of republicans has convinced them that Protestant-Catholic power-sharing would be impossible with the DUP in the ascendant.

Across the country, the effect on the government's popularity has been devastating.Ever since, the BNP has been in the ascendant.

If, as it appears, the influence of Ms Warren and her message is ascendant, now is the time for progressives like Mr Wills to demand that she seize real influence by running for the Democratic nomination.

With hardliners in the ascendant, hope of turning aside Iran's troubling nuclear ambitions is fading too.

His friends insist that he does for a creed now in the ascendant in New Labour which might be termed the "new behaviourism", soon to be the subject of a major lecture by the home secretary".New behaviourists" claim to take seriously the notion that rights and responsibilities go together.

The Americans were joining forces, wrote Auletta, "to create a safety net of sorts, because technology is changing so rapidly that no one can be sure which technology or which business will be ascendant".

After a lull in the 2000s, when clubs and festivals turned back to guitar-playing bands, the jockeys and their synthesisers are once more in the ascendant.

Old hat in sport (futbol, khokkei), it is ascendant in computerese (display, virtualniy, interaktivniy) and bizness (menedzhment, konsulting).