Sentence examples similar to assume ascendancy from inspiring English sources
Paine led an increasingly constrained life as the Jacobins assumed ascendancy and his friends were arrested and executed, fled, or killed themselves.
She also said the meteoric rise of specialist bloggers a few years ago has bumped back to earth, with traditional journalists assuming the ascendancy again.
The period that followed, characterized by the network of political and economic relationships called feudalism, was an age during which the mounted arm assumed an ascendancy that it began to relinquish only in the 14th century, with the appearance of infantry capable of taking the open field unsupported against mounted chivalry.
Dortmund now assumed the ascendancy with attack after attack, whilst Feyenoord seemed content to sit back and try and see the game out.
As plastic realism continues its ascendancy, modernism and postmodernism will both, in retrospect, assume increasing aspects of antiquity--curiosities for their own sake.
This is not to suggest that the play offered a facile analogy to the conditions of Trump's ascendancy, though there were moments when Kesting, assuming the privileges that would have been enjoyed by a sixteenth-century actor at the Globe, offered topical improvisations.
From the outside it was assumed that Bains was joining the Saints at a moment of ascendancy and solidity rarely enjoyed in the club's history.
