But he only established ascendancy over his party after Brown blinked and pulled back from the autumn election he had been planning that year.
Merlin-powered P-51s, equipped with jettisonable drop tanks, mounted their first long-range bomber escort missions over Germany in mid-December 1943, and they quickly established ascendancy over Germany's premier fighters, the Me 109 and the Fw 190.
Both Goneril and Regan know that this protection must be torn away if they are to establish their ascendancy over their father.
He came to share Winckelmann's enthusiasm for classical antiquity, and, upon its completion in 1761, his fresco Parnassus at the Villa Albani in Rome created a sensation and helped establish the ascendancy of Neoclassical painting.
The rapid march of technology gave Britain a temporary edge over every other country and allowed it to project both economic and maritime military power on a global scale that remained virtually unchallenged for most of the next 100 years, and to establish the ascendancy of the West that continues today.
All the time, he was establishing his ascendancy in the House of Commons.
Gordon established his ascendancy over this vast area, crushing rebellions and suppressing the slave trade.
His own contribution to establishing the ascendancy of the Neogrammarian position was the publication of a highly original study of nasal sounds (1876).
Beautiful and refined, she quickly established an ascendancy over the loud, but shy, Mr. Ross, and gradually persuaded him to let her stretch'the humorous "casuals" into short stories.
Not since 1912 have the West and the South so effectively and completely established their ascendancy in the Democratic party as at this convention.
She was the second wife of Philip and arrived in Spain in December 1714, whereupon she dismissed the resident royal favourite and quickly established an ascendancy over her weak husband that she continued to exercise until his death in 1746.
