Sentence examples for during their ascendancy from inspiring English sources

Because he had made a film whose narrator accuses the Taliban of being against culture and Islam, he went into hiding during their ascendancy.

Summoned to Constantinople in 533 to participate in the dispute over the Christological issue, he later fell victim to the violence of the strict orthodox party in Syria reacting to the earlier bloody persecution by the miaphysites during their ascendancy.

True, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, and the Vanderbilts -- who were the most famous robber barons -- also made few friends during their ascendancy.

During their ascendancy the Medici subsidized virtually the entire range of humanistic and artistic activities associated with the Renaissance.

It was conservatives who largely invented the "aging crisis," during their 1970s ascendancy.

They were Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, and during the period of their ascendancy they not only led the way, they were the way.

England maintained their ascendancy during the second, third and fourth Tests, though with decreasing victory margins; Australia finally achieved success in the last match, giving England a 4 1 series victory.

The upper classes embraced state projects to assert their ascendancy within their communities.

They made the most of their ascendancy, shoring up vulnerable incumbents.

If their ascendancy holds, they could act as a powerful sedative on the markets.

Despite their ascendancy now, Yaqoubi said, Iraq's Shiites owe no gratitude to the Americans.