The phrase "ascendant force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a rising power or influence in a particular context, such as politics, culture, or social movements.
Example: "In recent years, the ascendant force of environmental activism has reshaped public policy and corporate practices."
Alternatives: "rising power" or "emerging influence".
He is running comfortably without the support of Chinatown's political establishment, led by Ms. Pak, even as it emerges as an ascendant force that helped elevate Edwin M. Lee to become San Francisco's first Chinese-American mayor.
Half-rugged, half-polished and heavy with conviction, "The SteelDrivers" (Rounder) earned a Grammy nomination, won Bluegrass Album of the Year at last year's Nashville Music Awards and pegged the group as an ascendant force.
The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank (Harvill Secker) A primer on American conservatism, revealing the corruption and self-interest at the heart of the movement that has been the ascendant force in US politics for three decades.
At 7 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org; $20. (Chinen) ★ James Falzone and Klang (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Falzone is a clarinetist, a composer and an ascendant force on the Chicago scene, from which he drew the musicians in Klang: Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Jason Roebke on bass and Tim Daisy on drums.
The centre right or Christian democrats have been the ascendant force in Europe in recent years and are predicted to win the elections very narrowly, but at the price of forfeiting around 60 seats, which would also make them the biggest losers.
Mr. Coleman, 79, has been celebrated for the last 50 years as a paragon of progressivism: in 1959 Atlantic released "The Shape of Jazz to Come," a shot across the bow of modern-jazz orthodoxy and the album that marked him as a sharply ascendant force.
You don't hear that.Bagehot: The ascendant forces in this election are mostly on the left, in Scotland, even under this Labour party leader, and of course the Greens.
The ascendant forces in California's charter movement, I don't see a lot of value in them.
Cuts and Increases In 1980, Ronald Reagan placed tax cuts at the center of his campaign to oust President Jimmy Carter and make conservatism the ascendant political force.
Millennials, the ascendant economic force in America, have been culturally programmed to borrow, rent and share.
Squabbles about a choice for prime minister spilled out into the open on Saturday, exposing splits among the country's newly ascendant political forces.
