Sentence examples for became ascendant from inspiring English sources

But in the 1970's the notion that crime and poverty are the result of deviant, maladjusted individuals or a cultural pathology became ascendant.

In ensuing years, he said, the group's old guard became ascendant and, in frustration, he and others broke with it in 1996.

Across Iraq, the American invasion upended traditional notions of victimhood — the long oppressed Shiites became ascendant, while the Sunni ruling elite under Saddam Hussein's Baath Party found itself on the margins of power.

During the next 200 years, the wealthy merchants became ascendant once more, and the late Gothic architectural style flourished in many churches and buildings, reaching a peak in the fine Vladislav Hall of Hradčany.

That was before Saudi Arabia intervened militarily, before a crackdown ensued on the Shiite Muslim majority that was so sweeping they compared it to apartheid, before the most hard-line elements in the Sunni Muslim ruling family became ascendant.

After the uprising was put down by force in the spring of 2011, they say, hard-liners in the government, backed by the Saudis, became ascendant, eclipsing the reform faction represented by the crown prince.

When facts are uncertain, theories become ascendant.

But Dr. Lewis said that another division had become ascendant in the minds of many residents.

In hindsight, it was a natural response to defeat, though at the time I had imagined that reform-minded conservatives like Frum would become ascendant.

Mr. Wadhams said each of the Democrats could offer an opportunity to Republicans, whose own divisions several years back helped the Democrats become ascendant in the state.

With "Silent Ink" (think "Silent Spring"), Cai has subtly connected traditional Chinese landscape painting, in which nature was always represented as ascendant over man, to our modern world, where man has become ascendant over nature.