Sentence examples for great ascent from inspiring English sources

We breakfasted at the bottom of the mountain before starting the Great Ascent.

Although he employed it, writer Sholem Abramovitsh "made no pretense: He regarded Yiddish as ugly and unwashed, and adopted it only as a 'necessary evil,' a utilitarian means of spreading enlightenment among the masses". From this point in the 1850s began the great ascent of Yiddish culture.

Ours was not one of the great ascents of history, but my companions and I were exhilarated by the beauty of the place and by the unusual feeling of hiking at midnight.

It would be just like O'Connell, so good at climbing walls as a teenager, to save his greatest ascent until last.

You reach the property on a choice of two roads, one of which is the infamous "Bealach na Ba" ("Pass of the Cattle"), an old drover's road with sweeping hairpin bends that has the greatest ascent of any road in the UK.

On the other hand, though, every descent must be for a subsequently greater ascent.

The answer that the teachers of Chasidism give is that this descent is for the sake of a greater ascent.

The first great first ascent, of the Matterhorn, in 1865, by an Englishman named Edward Whymper, led to the death, on the descent, of four of his companions.

But if the significance of such moments of dominance can often be overstated – exhibit one: the unstoppable rise of the Premier League (sell-by date 2011) – there is still a starkness to this semi-final lineup, a sense of a greater historical ascent in play.

The greater the descent, the greater the subsequent ascent.

Presentational slides from the event titled, "The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World" by Steven Radelet.