Sentence examples for first ascendancy from inspiring English sources

"Since Vladimir Putin's first ascendancy to the Russian presidency in 2000, the Russian state has used its armed forces against other countries twice: against Georgia, in 2008; and now against Ukraine..

First, your ascendancy will be questioned by fiction critics in a major English-­language news publication.

Why on earth was he stuck on the bench as Leicester, with Garry Parker outpassing Molby, established first-half ascendancy?

Ireland's first-half ascendancy owed much to their ability to disrupt the All Blacks' lineout but Whitelock and Retallick will not let standards slip in Dublin and both bring so much more to New Zealand around the park.

Widely tipped for greatness after the surprise success of their 2005 second album Ascendancy, but then briskly consigned to the metallic dumper after the shambolic dropped clanger of 2006's The Crusade, Trivium have had to reassess their cocksure youthful ambitions over the last decade, but Vengeance Falls suggests that they still have what it takes to become major players.

Over the next four years, Osborne experienced the collapse of the Tory ascendancy first hand: "I joined the party the week Back to Basics fell apart," he told the Times in 2005.

Not so in football, where the age-old narrative of both teams scoring in injury time, thus ripping the ascendancy first one way and then the other, never ceases to reward.

You see what he means when you consider what happened after four years in the ascendancy, first due to his work with Switzerland, then with Internazionale of Milan in reaching the 1997 Uefa Cup [they lost on penalties in the two-legged final to Schalke 04], before he moved to Blackburn Rovers that summer, and took them into the Uefa Cup as well.

But his second term has featured far more pragmatism and far less confrontation in matters of national security than his first, reflecting the ascendancy of aides like Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and, most significantly in the talks with the North Koreans, Christopher R. Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs.

The 1960s now seems like a transitional age in which the new anti-authoritarianism now in ascendancy first dawned.

The failed Barents expedition took place during the late-sixteenth-century Dutch ascendancy on the seas.