The phrase "ascent means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining the term "ascent" in a specific context, such as in discussions about climbing, progress, or improvement.
Example: "In the context of personal growth, ascent means the gradual rise in one's skills and confidence over time."
Alternatives: "ascent refers to" or "ascent signifies".
But the sheer numbers of people now climbing Everest – more reached the summit on a single day in 2010 than in the 30 years after the first 1953 ascent – means 70 deaths have occurred since 2000 – including 10 this year.
Although the boards of CBS and Viacom would ultimately vote on who assumed Mr. Redstone's role as chairman, Mr. Dauman's ascent means he someday might be senior to both the CBS chief executive, Leslie Moonves, and Mr. Redstone's daughter, Shari, president of National Amusements and vice chairman of CBS and Viacom, who clashed with her father several years ago over corporate governance.
So while a decline in workforce participation is not inherently problematic, the fact that it's happening among people who lack other sources of community and other means of socioeconomic ascent means that it's more likely to compound existing trends toward stratification and atomization, hardening the lines of class and making individual lives unhappier even if the economic pie continues to grow.
Yet, when we meet, he hesitates at the thought that Trump's ascent means American Jews' trust in their country could one day be thought as naive as the faith Mendelssohn and the others placed long ago in the land they called home.
But the ascent means nothing if the journey isn't worth it, and like Ashes of Ariandel, The Ringed City continues to suggest FromSoftware is right to move on from Dark Souls.
That ascent meant rising by pumping air into ballast tanks, with diving planes turned upward 90 degrees to cut through the ice.
Joaquim Rodriguez won the first five climbs of the day to surpass Froome at the top of the leaderboard, but Bardet's victories on the final two ascents means the pair are locked on 68 points in the competition for the polka dots.
The Puducherry region has undulations in ground ranging from 30 to 100 m with mean ascent of 15 m above mean sea level (CGWB 2007).
Immigration to Israel is referred to, in Hebrew, as aliyah, which means "ascent".
Now two young North American climbers have removed many of the bolts, effectively erasing Maestri's route after completing the first so-called "fair means" ascent of the wall in January.
Some, say Caryn Aviv and David Shneer, two American scholars, in a recent book, "New Jews" (New York University Press), reject the notion that they are in a "diaspora", which "envisions the Jewish world hierarchically with Israel on top, the diaspora on [the] bottom .Aliyah literally means "ascent", while leaving Israel is yeridah, "descent".
