The phrase "ascendant influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a growing or increasing impact or power of someone or something in a particular context.
Example: "The ascendant influence of social media on public opinion cannot be ignored."
Alternatives: "growing influence" or "rising impact".
That's no longer the case, thanks to the ascendant influence of a generation of players — like the saxophonist Mark Turner, 45, and the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, 40 — who have been vocal in their admiration for Tristano's harmonically daring, melodically intricate music.
Some associate him with the killings of Sunni Muslims by the Supreme Council's military wing, the Badr Organization, and with the ascendant influence of Iran in the new Iraq.
In Washington, officials were noticeably cool to news of the agreement between Mr. Maliki and Mr. Sadr, in no small part because it signaled an ascendant Iranian influence in Iraq.
While Ms. Vestager's global influence is ascendant, her political fate is murky.
With Iran's Sunni foe Hussein eliminated, the Shiite theocracy became ascendant, exercising a powerful influence over the new Iraqi government, expanding its reach into Yemen as Houthi rebels took over the capital, and positioning itself to help push Bashar al-Assad to victory in Syria.
Powerful men and women in DC too are caught in a futile, broken embrace of their own: torn between meeting their narcissistic ambitions, short term election goals and grotesque greed for immediate influence and ascendant power.
Bündchen's success combining business with modeling is influencing young, ascendant models.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have faded in influence this year; the ascendant senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Chris Murphy, and Tim Kaine are closer to the Party's center.
But with seven months left in this administration, Iran appears ascendant, its political and economic influence growing, its historic foes in Iraq and Afghanistan weakened, and its nuclear program continuing to move forward.
In the nineteenth century, under the influence of the ascendant medical profession, which opposed abortion (and wanted to control health care), states began to outlaw the procedure, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was all but uniformly illegal.
He immediately antagonised Australia by appointing a former militant as police chief and by smuggling a Fiji-born lawyer, Julian Moti, wanted in Australia for alleged child-sex offences, into the country to serve as attorney-general.The events took place a time when Australian influence was in the ascendant.
