Sentence examples for gaining ascendancy from inspiring English sources

Instead for all their lack of air power, drones and high-tech equipment, the Taliban are gaining ascendancy.

Photography is in the service of the post judgmental ethos gaining ascendancy in societies whose norms are drawn from the practices of consumerism.

Reisz, however, tried to add resonance by adumbrating a system of moral counterbalances between hero and heroine, with the designated victim finally gaining ascendancy over her nemesis.

Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture.

Organised crime was responsible for a 20% rise in illegal CD production worldwide last year, with the mafia and drug barons gaining ascendancy, while piracy through the internet was the latest fast-growing threat to the lawful £25bn a year music business, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

But the entrepreneurial part of the mix is rapidly gaining ascendancy.

With time Rome may gain ascendancy over the north.

"Daniel Stedman Jones shows how neoliberalism gained ascendancy in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

As the English East India Company gained ascendancy in the 18th century, Thomas Christians faced new challenges.

Although Juan Pacheco, marqués de Villena, initially gained ascendancy over the king, others vied for royal favour.

But that is precisely what happened once strident nationalists gained ascendancy.