Sentence examples for ascendant with from inspiring English sources

The cause of gay rights, in contrast, is ascendant, with the President now its outspoken champion.

I am a Libra with a Cancer ascendant with a Virgo moon.

Vaudeville was fading, as was the belting projection of singers like Al Jolson; jazz, talkies, and the radio were ascendant, with Crosby in the wave.

Right now, we're in a kind of golden age for professional football, but in a few decades, professional soccer (or MMA, or whatever) could be ascendant, with football a (big) niche sport.

At least since the Reagan revolution of the early nineteen-eighties, free-market ideology has been ascendant, with even Democratic Administrations following its precepts of market discipline, limited regulation, and unfettered rewards.

During the first stadtholderless period (1650 72), the office again became ascendant with the appointment of Johan de Witt, the pensionary of Dordrecht from 1650 and of the province of Holland from 1653.

This creates a unique opportunity: an ascendant Republican Party with a looming vacancy at the top.There is no shortage of candidates to suit all Republican tastes.

America, an ascendant superpower with its own dark history of oppression, found classical music a useful tool for convincing the world of its cultural prowess.

It's the work of an ascendant purist with new capital to spend: Jamey Johnson has shown, through his previous two albums on Mercury Nashville, a staunch concern for craft and legacy.

His seemingly contradictory roles — de facto chief of internal affairs officer and ascendant executive with Mr. Murdoch's ear — are raising questions about how robust and objective the internal inquiry can be.

The visionary overtones of "The Return of the Ascendant Master," with its floating yellow eye and spider-like flower, and the ambiguous sexual references in "Question of Eros" indicate an affinity with Surrealist reverie.