Sentence examples for gaining the ascendancy from inspiring English sources

"Tactical bankruptcy by Vahid!" was one such lamentation in Le Buteur after Halilhodzic's team, who took a first-half lead before tiring and conceding twice late on, sat deeper and deeper after gaining the ascendancy.

He finds it "depressing" that the positive case for immigration is not made and is very worried that those Tories who want to get out of the EU are gaining the ascendancy: "With half of our Hondas going to Europe, I would be mad to argue for that".

Hailed as a beacon for change early in the uprisings that resounded across the Arab world four years ago, Yemen has since become one of the region's most fragile and volatile states, with central power having been whittled away and non-state parties, with foreign backers, gaining the ascendancy.

But in keeping with much of the day, just when England were gaining the ascendancy they lost another wicket, Prior pulling Peter Siddle to midwicket.

Then wickets started to tumble and England gained the ascendancy, until Mahmuddullah and Shafiul combined.

Very quickly Tony gained the ascendancy in parliament … so much so Labor had to replace Kevin Rudd".

Nevertheless, his work rate and physicality are beyond reproach and as Ghana began to gain the ascendancy in the second period he looked menacing.

The sagging economy, and a widespread sense of trend-fatigue, made it likely that some form of more simplified cooking would gain the ascendancy.

For the moment, at least, it looks as if the traditional content providers from the old Time Warner -- the magazine, movie, television, book and music divisions -- have gained the ascendancy over the upstart Internet entrepreneurs from America Online.

Caracci's more-decorous style, closely attuned to the church authorities' desire to control and subdue a large shifting population of actual poor increasingly perceived as a threat to social order would gradually gain the ascendancy.

Yet if Barcelona quickly adapted their attacking trio, switching Messi inside early on and shifting Eto'o to the right, it was in the middle of the pitch that they truly gained the ascendancy.