Sentence examples similar to ascendant authority from inspiring English sources
Militias had primacy nationwide during the worst of the war years and are once again ascendant as the Iraqi military's authority crumbles.
The peace chief held sway in the village, whereas the war leader was ascendant in areas external to the village; he had authority in the village itself only when it was under the threat of imminent attack.
In the first term, Mr. Cheney, backed by his close ally, Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was then the defense secretary, was ascendant, and his views about the aggressive use of executive authority and military might held great sway.
When twelfth-century canon lawyers resurrected Roman law as the foundation for the ascendant papal monarchy, it was common to distinguish between jurisdictive authority, secular power, and the use and possession of private property.[1] By the beginning of the fourteenth century, dominium largely connoted property ownership, though this usually entailed jurisdictive authority.
While an ascendant Larry Page "put the emphasis on beauty and gave us the freedom to go beyond," said Gilbert, there's "no organizational authority making it happen".
The Pacers are ascendant.
Yet he remains ascendant.
Economic determinism ascendant.
7) Stephen Miller is ascendant.
